Industry Beat
10/5/2009
Air Products Price Increase
(Allentown, PA) • Starting October 1, Air Products & Chemicals Inc. will raise prices and monthly service charges for liquid and bulk industrial gas products, due to higher costs of running plants with weaker demand. The company will increase prices and charges for liquid oxygen, liquid nitrogen, liquid argon and liquid and bulk hydrogen by 4 to 8 percent; and liquid and bulk helium by 5 to 10 percent. Some price adjustments may be outside those ranges based on specific situations.