LEHIGH VALLEY, Pa.,
Nov. 11, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- Air
Products (NYSE: APD) has committed to reduce its global greenhouse
gas (GHG) emissions and is the only industrial gas company to have
its reduction goal accepted under the U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency's (EPA's) Climate Leaders® program.
Air Products' production-intensity based emission reduction goal
-- to reduce global GHG emissions by seven percent per production
index by 2015 -- is aligned with the company's
2015 intensity-based energy efficiency goals for large air
separation units (ASUs) and hydrogen, carbon monoxide and synthesis
gas (HyCO) facilities, which represent approximately 80 percent of
the company's total global energy requirements. Using calendar year
2007 as the baseline year, these energy goals are meant to achieve
a seven percent reduction in energy consumption at the company's
large ASUs per quantity of gas produced and a seven percent
reduction in fuel and feedstock consumption per quantity of
hydrogen produced at HyCO plants by 2015.
Commenting on Air Products' GHG reduction goal validation by
EPA, Pat Loughlin, vice president of
Environment, Health, Safety and Quality and Chair of Air Products'
Sustainability Council, said, "We are very pleased to have worked
with EPA under Climate Leaders for the past five years to ensure
the integrity of our inventory and accounting and set this goal.
Our products and technology solutions enable our customers to
significantly reduce their emissions and lower their energy use, so
formalizing our GHG emission reduction goal is a natural next step
in our drive to continuously improve our own environmental
performance."
To view the complete news release, visit Air Products' online
Press Room at
www.airproducts.com/PressRoom/CompanyNews/Archived/2010/11Nov2010b.htm.
***NOTE: This release contains "forward-looking statements"
within the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities
Litigation Reform Act of 1995, including about projections, targets
and plans. 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 may differ materially from projections and targets
expressed in the forward-looking statements because of many factors
not anticipated by management, including, without limitation,
successful development of new technologies.
SOURCE Air Products