LEHIGH VALLEY, Pa.,
Nov. 23, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- For the
11th consecutive year, Air Products (NYSE:APD) has been
named to the Dow Jones Sustainability North America Index (DJSI).
The 2020/2021 DJSI recognition ranks Air Products among the top 20
percent of North American companies in its industry group for
corporate sustainability performance.
"Sustainability is at the heart of what Air Products does as a
business. Our existing business and our growth opportunities enable
customers around the world to reduce their energy use, lower
emissions and increase productivity," said Simon Moore, Air Products' vice president
investor relations, corporate relations and sustainability. "It is
an honor to be recognized for over a decade by DJSI. This
achievement shows that Air Products is demonstrating its commitment
to its higher purpose, to bring people together to collaborate and
innovate solutions to the world's most significant energy and
environmental sustainability challenges."
For the 2020/2021 DJSI, Air Products showed improvements in
several key areas, with the largest gains coming in product
stewardship and environmental reporting. Products manufactured by
Air Products enabled customers and downstream users to avoid the
equivalent of 69 million metric tons of carbon dioxide emissions,
equivalent to the emissions from 15 million cars – and 2.5 times
more than Air Products' own direct and indirect CO2
emissions.
Recently Air Products took additional steps to publicly reaffirm
its commitment to sustainability by announcing its "Third by '30"
initiative to reduce its carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions
intensity (kg CO2/MM BTU) by one-third by the year 2030
from a 2015 baseline. Air Products set the new target as it
successfully attained its 2020 CO2 reduction goal.
Air Products also recently announced goals to further increase
the percentage of women and U.S. minorities in professional and
managerial roles. By 2025, Air Products aims to achieve at least 28
percent female representation in the professional and managerial
population globally and at least 20 percent minority representation
in that same population in the United
States. These percentages reflect increases from our 2020
baseline representation of 25 and 17 percent,
respectively.
To learn more about Air Products' commitment to sustainability,
visit our Sustainability website.
About Air Products
Air Products (NYSE:APD) is a
world-leading industrial gases company in operation for 80 years.
Focused on serving energy, environment and emerging markets, the
Company provides essential industrial gases, related equipment and
applications expertise to customers in dozens of industries,
including refining, chemical, metals, electronics, manufacturing,
and food and beverage. Air Products is also the global leader in
the supply of liquefied natural gas process technology and
equipment. The Company develops, engineers, builds, owns and
operates some of the world's largest industrial gas projects,
including: gasification projects that sustainably convert abundant
natural resources into syngas for the production of high-value
power, fuels and chemicals; carbon capture projects; and
world-scale carbon-free hydrogen projects supporting global
transportation and the energy transition.
The Company had fiscal 2020 sales of $8.9
billion from operations in 50 countries and has a current
market capitalization of about $60
billion. More than 19,000 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 address the challenges
facing customers, communities, and the world. For more information,
visit www.airproducts.com or follow us on LinkedIn, Twitter,
Facebook or Instagram.
NOTE: This release may contain forward-looking statements
within the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities
Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These forward-looking statements are
based on management's reasonable expectations and assumptions as of
the date of this release regarding important risk factors. Actual
performance and financial results may differ materially from
projections and estimates expressed in the forward-looking
statements because of many factors not anticipated by management,
including risk factors described in the company's Form 10K for its
fiscal year ended September 30,
2020.
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