PX-Linde Merge Related

Praxair reported Q4 net income and diluted earnings per share of $406m and $1.41, respectively.

In its Q3 2016 conference call with shareholders, the Linde Group released a new three-year efficiency programme, Linde LIFT. But what exactly does this strategic business plan entail?

The prospective Praxair-Linde merger has the potential to completely change the face of the global industrial gases industry and would crown a new global market leader.

Each January we take a look at the trends that we believe will impact the markets for industrial, medical, and specialty gases and their related technology and equipment providers.

Over the course of our twenty years of involvement in the industry, we have written numerous articles and given many presentations on the subject of mergers and acquisitions (M&A) in the industrial gas industry. While...

After gasworld revealed that the relevant transaction documents were formally signed in April, Praxair Inc. has now officially completed its takeover of Yara International ASA’s European carbon dioxide (CO2) business.

So the ink is finally dry on the biggest deal in the industrial gases business in years, with the key signatures committed to contracts and glasses raised across both sides of the Atlantic.

Following the news that Air Liquide has made an offer of $143 per share, valuing Airgas at $13.4bn, gasworld Business Intelligence investigates as to whether this will result in a successful acquisition. 

There are few subjects that have impacted the industrial gas industry in the United States over the past 25 years more than mergers and acquisitions (M&A).

The first decade of the 21st century was a very active one for the industrial gases sector.