BNET Industries

Praxair Inc.

(PX) is in the Manufacturing Industry

Market Cap:$25.1B

Last Fiscal Year Sales:$10.7B

Public
US

Dow Jones Description

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

Contact Information

39 Old Ridgebury Rd

Danbury, Connecticut 06810

www.praxair.com

(203) 837-2000

Peer Companies

NAICS Code Industrial Gas Manufacturing: 325120

Company News

Recent Events

Praxair PX Issues Regional Guidance for 2009

12/09/09 - Financial Announcement - View Story
Praxair Unit Launches Coating Production Cell For Airframe Applications - Quick Facts

12/07/09 - Product Announcement - View Story
Praxair China Signs Gas Supply Contract with China Aviation

11/30/09 - Joint Venture / Alliance - View Story
Praxair to sell gases to Chinese solar cell maker

11/23/09 - Financial Announcement - View Story
Indian Market To Track Global Cues For Direction

11/23/09 - Joint Venture / Alliance - View Story
Praxair PX Signs Solar Cell Bulk and Process Gas Supply Agreement with MAGI Solar

11/23/09 - Joint Venture / Alliance - View Story
Praxair declares dividend of 40 cents

10/28/09 - Stock Split / Dividend - View Story
Praxair, Inc. - SWOT Analysis

10/30/09 - Financial Announcement - View Story
Secretary Chu's 'Game-Changing' Push to Capture Carbon

10/15/09 - New Investment - View Story
Praxair listed among top for carbon disclosure

9/30/09 - Financial Announcement - View Story
Praxair 2Q Profit Down 14%; Gives Weak 3Q EPS View

7/29/09 - Financial Announcement - View Story
Praxair Surface Technologies Acquires Sermatech Int'l - Update

7/01/09 - Merger / Acquisition - View Story
Praxair Acquires Sermatech International

7/01/09 - Merger / Acquisition - View Story

News & Analysis

materials & industrials and praxair inc. - All News and Analysis

Praxair Expects Business Pipeline to Stay Strong for the Long Term

Seeking Alpha - 2009-09-23

Zacks.com submits: Monday, Praxair Inc.’s PX Chinese subsidiary installed its NCOOL cryogenic heat exchanger system at a Shanghai Pharmaceutical Group Ltd. unit. It employs Praxair’s patented NCOOL cryogenic heat exchanger system in a pharmaceutical freeze dryer. Praxair’s highly efficient nitrogen-based system replaces its mechanically refrigerated freeze dryer with...

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Praxair's Good Fortune Will Only Get Better

Seeking Alpha - 2009-09-01

David Fessler submits: Back in February in this column, I reviewed Praxair (NYSE: PX), one of the dominant players in the specialty gas sector. You may recall that Praxair – a global, Fortune 300 company – is the largest industrial gases company in the Americas, and the...

Tags: Materials & Industrials, Energy, David Fessler, Praxair Inc.
Praxair, Inc. Q2 2009 Earnings Call Transcript

Seeking Alpha - 2009-07-29

Praxair, Inc. PX Q2 2009 Earnings Call Transcript July 29, 2009 11:00 am ET

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