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Air Products has appointed Marie Ffolkes to the position of President, Industrial Gases–Americas, effective May 18, 2015.

Linde Gases, a division of The Linde Group, and its technologically advanced, ground-breaking gas cylinder valve, EVOS™ Ci, has won the prestigious Red Dot Award: Product Design 2015.

Linde will be attending BevTech® ’15 in Savannah, Georgia, – held from April 26-29 – to support the beverage industry in a number of ways.

Praxair, Inc. has been named in the top quartile of Forbes’ list which recognises the best employers to work for in the United States.

Dresser-Rand was honored with the 2015 Gulf Coast Oil & Gas “New Technology Development of the Year” Award for its LNGo™ natural gas conversion system.

Praxair’s Surface Technologies coating service center in Changzhou, China, has received a National Aerospace and Defense Contractors Accreditation Program (NADCAP) accreditation for coatings.

Mel Fitzgerald has been appointed as Chairman of engineered solutions provider Suretank.

Flow-Cal, Inc. was the honoree at the University of Houston-Clear Lake (UHCL) annual ‘Report to the Community’ breakfast where it received the 2015 UHCL Community Partnership Award.

Plug Power Inc. has appointed Martin (Marty) Hull as Chief Accounting Officer effective from (tomorrow) 1 April, 2015.

Airgas, Inc. has named Matthew B. Whitton as President of the company’s northern California and Nevada (NCN) region, reporting to Douglas Jones, President – Airgas west Division.