In addition to the offerings highlighted in this table, Praxair supplies customers in all markets with the full range of atmospheric, process and specialty gases. Praxair also offers a comprehensive portfolio of supply systems tailored to customers' needs. The 13% of sales not covered below is generated in a variety of smaller markets.

  MARKETS    PRAXAIR OFFERINGS    CUSTOMER BENEFITS
  AEROSPACE 4% of total sales
Spacecraft manufacture & launch
 
  • Electric-propulsion system gases
  • Cryogenic fuel-densification systems
  • Metal-joining technology, supplies & services
  • Temporary & permanent supply systems
  • High-pressure systems
  • Site-gas & utility-management services
  • Safety training
  • Investment-reducing facility leases
 
  • Single source for gases & delivery systems
  • Reduced costs
Aircraft manufacture & operation
 
  • On-board oxygen membrane systems
  • Membrane nitrogen for fuel-tank inerting, filling tires & struts, pressurizing
  • Nitrogen-enriched air systems
  • Refrigeration systems for fuel conditioning
 
  • Single source for gases & delivery systems
  • Enhanced safety
  • Experience with FAA inerting standards
  • Reduced costs
Spacecraft & aircraft engine & airframe component overhaul & repair
 
  • High-performance surface coatings
  • Thermal-spray systems, equipment & consumables

 
  • Extended product life
  • Increased productivity
  • Reduced costs
  CHEMICALS 11% of total sales
   
  • Site-gas management services
  • Environmental solutions for wastewater, VOC’s & solid-waste streams
  • Productivity solutions
  • Maintenance & repair gases & equipment
  • Clean dry-air systems
  • Utility management; co-generation
  • Pipeline & plant services – purging, blanketing, drying, cooling, heating, pressure testing, leak detection, hot stripping, catalyst handling support, pipeline displacement, pipe & furnace cleaning & inspecting
  • Specialty gases for process control & analytical applications
  • Gas-delivery equipment for specialty gas applications

 
  • Reliable supply
  • Increased productivity
  • Environmental compliance
  • Lower production & maintenance costs
  • Consistent product quality
  • Improved safety
  • Fast, safe turnarounds
  • Longer equipment life
Biotechnology/
Life Sciences/
Pharmaceutical
 
  • Cryogenic gases, dry ice & equipment for biological samples shipment & storage
  • FDA-regulated gases
  • Low-temperature process refrigeration
  • Ultra-pure instrument & process gases
  • Supercritical extraction materials
  • High-accuracy traceable calibration mixtures
     
 
  • Sample preservation
  • FDA compliance
  • Single source for gases, delivery systems, materials & related services
  ELECTRONICS 7% of total sales
Semiconductor fabrication
Process
consumables

 
 
 
  • Full line of ultra-high-purity process gases
  • Physical vapor deposition (PVD) sputtering targets & reclamation services
  • Computer disk & chemical mechanical planarization (CMP) slurries & polishing pads & belts
  • Chemical vapor deposition (CVP) precursors
 
 
 
  • Single source for gases, delivery systems, materials & related services
  • Global distribution, local expertise
  • Lower total cost of ownership
  • Improved productivity, enhanced technology
  • Reduced environmental impact
  • Reliable supply

Fab
infrastructure & services

 
  • Design & installation of advanced bulk & on-site gas production systems
  • High-flow bulk specialty-gas delivery systems
  • Analytical systems & services
 
Process tool
solutions
 
  • Electrostatic chucks
  • Performance coatings
  • Integrated supply-chain management
  • Chamber components spare parts

 
  ENERGY 10% of total sales
Petroleum
Refining
 
  • Extensive hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen pipeline systems
  • Specialty gases for process control & analytical applications
  • Hydrogen & energy optimization services & ongoing management services
  • Pipeline & plant services – purging, blanketing, drying, cooling, heating, pressure testing, leak detection, hot stripping, catalyst handling support, pipeline displacement, pipe & furnace cleaning & inspecting
  • Tank leak detection
  • Maintenance & repair gases & equipment
  • Utility management; co-generation
  • Wastewater treatment gases & equipment
 
  • Reliable supply
  • Environmental compliance
  • Lower energy & hydrogen operating costs
  • Increased yield
  • Reduced losses
  • Improved product quality
  • Lower maintenance costs
  • Longer equipment life
Oil & Gas Recovery
 
  • Mobile nitrogen pumping services
  • Foam fracturing applications
  • Cryogenic nitrogen injection & rejection services
  • Portable enhanced coal bed methane recovery systems
  • Carbon dioxide rejection
  • Clean dry air systems
 
  • Reliable supply
  • Environmental compliance
  • Increased yield
  • Lower maintenance costs
Coal-fired utility & industrial boilers
 
  • Oxygen-enhanced combustion technology
 
  • Lower nitrogen oxide emissions
  • Lower operating cost
  FOOD & BEVERAGE 8% of total sales
   
  • Food laboratory testing services & data resource center
  • Complete line of cryogenic freezers; equipment design & development
  • New ultra-performance cryogenic refrigeration technology
  • Produce-washing & disinfection technology
  • Beverage-carbonation services
  • Modified-atmosphere packaging systems
  • Patented & proprietary applications technologies
  • Wastewater-treatment gases & equipment
 
 
  • Improved food safety & product quality
  • Flavor preservation
  • Extended shelf life
  • Increased productivity
  • Enhanced yield savings
  • Improved distribution efficiencies
  HEALTHCARE 10% of total sales
Home care
 
  • Home oxygen therapy via stationary oxygen concentrators & liquid systems, with high-pressure cylinder back-up
  • Continuity of care from hospital to home
  • Sleep apnea equipment & treatment
  • Durable medical equipment – wheelchairs, hospital beds, walkers & canes, patient lift devices, bathroom aids
  • Home-respiratory medication program
  • Advanced respiratory services – respirator ventilators & tracheostomy care
 
  • Life-saving treatment
  • Physical comfort
  • Home environment
  • Reduced costs
    (vs. hospital stay)
  • Highly trained healthcare professionals
Hospitals
 
  • Grab ‘n Go® portable medical oxygen system
  • Medipure™ gases & related equipment
  • Laboratory gases & environmental services
  • Cryogenic gases, dry ice & equipment for biological shipment & storage, dermatology & magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)
  • Magnet services for MRIs
  • Site gas-management services
  • Design & installation of piping & related equipment
  • Preparation of third-party compliance audits; compliance training & certification

 
  • Single source for medical gases, equipment & services from hospital to home
  • Improved efficiency & productivity
  • Reduced costs
  • Consistent product quality
  MANUFACTURING 22% of total sales
Metal Fabrication
 
  • Welding & cutting application technologies; laser, robotics & automation expertise
  • StarSolver® productivity-enhancement program
  • Gases, equipment, consumables & accessories
  • Safety products
  • Technical support & training
  • Gas-supply optimization & site gas-management services; membrane-supply technology
  • E-business capabilities
 
  • Increased productivity
  • Lower overall costs
  • Improved product quality
  • Environmental compliance
  • Increased safety
  • Reduced rework
  • Extended equipment life
  • Access to technical expertise
Heat Treating
 
  • Protective atmsopheres in furnaces
  • Automated gas-control systems
  • Technical support, process & safety information
 
  • Improved product quality
  • Reduced costs
  • Improved reliability
Glass
 
  • Oxygen-enhanced combustion technologies
  • Oxygen for furnace & forehearth
  • Atmospheres for float glass
 
  • Environmental compliance – lower nitrogen oxide emissions
  • Lower energy consumption
Water Treatment
 
  • Patented I-SO™ technology
  • Gases & equipment for pH control
 
  • Higher treatment rates
  • Reduced VOC emissions
  • Improved process control & peak shaving
Pulp & Paper
 
  • Oxidative extraction
  • Oxygen delignification
  • Brownstock washing with carbon dioxide
  • Wastewater treatment with oxygen and carbon dioxide
  • Lime kiln enrichment with oxygen

 
  • Environmental compliance
  • Improved product quality
  • Increased productivity
Machine parts, printing rolls
 
  • High-performance coatings
  • Thermal-spray-coated rolls and parts for flexographic, offset & gravure printing

 
  • Improved product quality
  • Reduced costs
  • Extended equipment life
  METALS 15% of total sales
   
  • Process analysis
  • Gas & energy-management services
  • CoJet® gas-injection, AOD™ argon-oxygen decarburization & other patented & proprietary technologies for steel, stainless steel & aluminum production & process control
  • Nitrogen technologies for cold curing, protective atmospheres, inerting & desulfurization
  • Waste-management systems
  • Welding technologies & gases
     
 
  • Reliable supply
  • Improved efficiencies
  • Improved product quality
  • Reduced costs