Air Products Again Earns Spot on Barron's 100 Most Sustainable Companies List for the 6th Consecutive Year

LEHIGH VALLEY, Pa., April 17, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Air Products (NYSE:APD), a leading global industrial gases company, has once again earned a spot on Barron's 100 Most Sustainable Companies List. This is Air Products' sixth consecutive year on the list.

"Sustainability is at the heart of everything we do at Air Products. It is our higher purpose to bring people together to collaborate and innovate solutions to the world's most significant energy and environmental challenges," said Seifi Ghasemi, Chairman, President and CEO at Air Products. "We are proud to again be recognized for our efforts but know there is always more work to be done. We will continue to work hard every day to execute on our many world-scale energy transition  megaprojects, provide excellent service to our industrial gases customers and innovate solutions to generate a cleaner future."

For Barron's annual ranking of the most sustainable companies, the 1,000 largest publicly traded companies were scored on a variety of environmental, social and governance (ESG) measures. Barron's worked with Calvert Research and Management, which analyzed how the companies performed across 230 ESG metrics, ranging from workplace diversity to greenhouse-gas emissions.

Air Products ranked #57 on this year's list. Inclusion on Barron's 100 Most Sustainable Companies list is Air Products latest recognition for its sustainability efforts.  Recently, Air Products was included in S&P Global's Sustainability Yearbook for 2024 for the 12^th time. Air Products also was ranked #4 in Forbes Magazine's list of America's Best Employers for Diversity for 2023, and recognized by Newsweek as one of America's Greatest Workplaces for Diversity in 2024. Air Products was also included in Time magazine's inaugural list of the World's Best Companies 2023.

To learn more about Air Products' efforts, achievements and sustainability goals, visit Air Products' Sustainability website.

About Air Products

Air Products (NYSE:APD) is a world-leading industrial gases company in operation for over 80 years focused on serving energy, environmental, and emerging markets. The Company has two growth pillars driven by sustainability. Air Products' base business provides essential industrial gases, related equipment and applications expertise to customers in dozens of industries, including refining, chemicals, metals, electronics, manufacturing, and food. The Company also develops, engineers, builds, owns and operates some of the world's largest clean hydrogen projects supporting the transition to low- and zero-carbon energy in the heavy-duty transportation and industrial sectors. Additionally, Air Products is the world leader in the supply of liquefied natural gas process technology and equipment, and provides turbomachinery, membrane systems and cryogenic containers globally.

The Company had fiscal 2023 sales of $12.6 billion from operations in approximately 50 countries and has a current market capitalization of about $60 billion. Approximately 23,000 passionate, talented and committed employees from diverse backgrounds are driven by Air Products' higher purpose to create innovative solutions that benefit the environment, enhance sustainability and reimagine what's possible to address the challenges facing customers, communities, and the world. For more information, visit www.airproducts.com or follow us on LinkedIn, X, Facebook or Instagram.

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