Praxair Rus, Астрахань

With 26, 000 employees and operations in more than 30
countries, Praxair is focused on helping our
customers become more profitable, efficient and environmentally
friendly. Praxair is a global Fortune 300 company that supplies
atmospheric, process and specialty gases, high-performance
coatings, and related services and technologies. Among the gases we
supply are oxygen, nitrogen, argon, carbon dioxide, helium and
hydrogen.The company’s world-class engineering organization
designs, engineers and constructs cryogenic and non-cryogenic
supply systems around the world. Praxair Surface Technologies is a
subsidiary that applies metallic and ceramic coatings and powders
to metal surfaces in order to resist wear, high temperatures and
corrosion.The gases and technologies supplied by Praxair are used
by a wide variety of industries — to preserve foods, produce
computer chips, improve the efficiency of industrial processes, reduce emissions, clean and recycle waste water, treat hospital
patients, produce fiber-optics for telecommunications, make
cleaner-burning gasoline and diesel fuels, increase energy supplies
and put the fizz in soft drinks. We even received an Academy Award
for our special effects “synthetic air” used in movies like Spider
Man, Armageddon and Bruce Almighty. Praxair is a recognized leader in sustainable development. For
nine consecutive years, the company has been selected as a
component of the Dow Jones Sustainability World Index - the only
U. S. chemical company with this distinction - and for four
consecutive years has been selected for the Carbon Disclosure
Project’s Carbon Disclosure Leadership Index. Praxair adopted its name in 1992, from the Greek word "praxis", or practical application, and "air", our primary raw material. The
company was originally founded in 1907 when it was the first
company in North America to commercialize cryogenically separated
oxygen. Over the century of its existence, Praxair has led the development
of processes and technologies that have revolutionized the
industrial gases industry. The company introduced the first
distribution system for liquid gas in 1917, and developed on-site
gas supply by the end of WWII. In the 1960s, Praxair introduced
non-cryogenic means of air separation, and since then has continued
to introduce innovative applications technologies for various
industries. The company has over 4, 000 patents and pending
applications.