BNET Industries
Market Cap:$25.2B
Last Fiscal Year Sales:$10.7B
- Public
- US
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Praxair makes the coatings that make the world's industries work. Founded in 1907 and headquartered in Danbury, CT, Praxair Inc (NYSE: PX) manufactures and sells atmospheric, process, and specialty gases and surface coatings. Primarily, it produces oxygen, nitrogen, and argon through several separation processes, and supplies wear- and temperature-resistant metallic and ceramic coatings to customers in healthcare, petroleum, computer chip, carbonation, fiber optic, steel, aerospace, chemicals, and water treatment. The company has revenues of approximately $7.65 billion and employs about 27,300 workers. It operates in North America, South America, Europe, and Asia.
Number of Employees 26,936
Peer Companies
NAICS Code Industrial Gas Manufacturing: 325120
Recent Events
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Praxair China Signs Gas Supply Contract with China Aviation
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Praxair to sell gases to Chinese solar cell maker
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Indian Market To Track Global Cues For Direction
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Praxair PX Signs Solar Cell Bulk and Process Gas Supply Agreement with MAGI Solar
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Praxair declares dividend of 40 cents
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Praxair, Inc. - SWOT Analysis
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Secretary Chu's 'Game-Changing' Push to Capture Carbon
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Praxair listed among top for carbon disclosure
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Praxair 2Q Profit Down 14%; Gives Weak 3Q EPS View
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Praxair Surface Technologies Acquires Sermatech Int'l - Update
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Praxair Acquires Sermatech International
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The China syndrome: cheap labor, growing economy make nation attractive to area companies.
- 2005-04-11
At the Symposium of International Trade and Investment, China was identified as a growing economy from which opportunities and challenges lie ahead for area companies. Ted C. Fishman, the keynote speaker at the Stamford conference and the author o At the Symposium of...
Planned obsolescence creates new consumers.(Looking Inside)
- 2004-01-05
The older you get, the more you know. And, now I have learned that due to living longer, we elderly are again becoming a viable marketing demographic for years ignored by many marketing studies. It's great to have passed the big 80 and again become...
Killing the goose that laid the golden egg.(Looking Inside)(offshore labor)(Column)
- 2003-08-11
A reader commented that I have been too hard on companies exporting jobs to India and elsewhere. "Cutting labor costs is the only way many companies can cut costs and show a profit," he said. First, it was factory workers. Now it can affe ...
Savings are ripe for picking in employee benefits buys.
- 2001-05-03
Only a small percentage (14%) of purchasing professionals are involved in helping to buy employee benefits, according to a PURCHASING survey conducted last fall. The actual percentage of purchasing pros involved in this area nationwide is likely ev Only a small percentage (14%) of...
Global Industries Names Edgar G. Hotard President and Chief Operating Officer
- 1999-09-02
LAFAYETTE, La.--BUSINESS WIRE--Sept. 2, 1999-- Global Industries, Ltd. (Nasdaq:GLBL) announced today that Edgar G. Hotard has been elected President and Chief Operating Officer of the Company. Mr. Hotard will continue to be a member of the Board of Directors of Global and will join the Company in his...
Inorganics Post Lackluster Results Amid Sluggish Market Conditions.
- 1999-02-01
AN EXAMINATION OF fourth quarter earnings by several major producers of inorganic chemicals reveals little to no growth because of numerous problems including the Asian economic crisis and oversupply in crucial markets. During the fourth quar AN EXAMINATION...
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