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COVID-19 Information Center

When one of us faces a challenge, we all face it together.

As the world navigates the challenges and threats from the novel coronavirus (COVID-19), we at Air Products are continuing to share information to help maintain the health and safety of our colleagues, customers, suppliers, and communities. This is our top priority, as ever.

We have established this web page for updates on COVID-19 as they pertain to Air Products and our stakeholders, and we will continue to update with relevant information.

Let’s continue to stand united, stay informed, and stay safe.

PLAYING A CRITICAL ROLE AT A CRITICAL TIME

Air Products has been designated by the U.S. government, and other governments around the world, as a "critical industry," and we're proud to serve our customers and communities, keeping our facilities running safely and delivering critical products. Air Products provides products, services and equipment essential to basic human needs, including medical oxygen, helium for MRI, gases for food freezing, hydrogen for energy, and related equipment critical for energy and medical needs. We continue to evaluate new developments but anticipate continued recognition of the importance of our products to national infrastructure security so that we can maintain operations. We are proud that our employees and products are essential to moving our countries forward every day, and particularly, in these challenging times.

Our Global Response

Staying committed and focused
Air Products continues to work hard to avoid any production shortages in our business due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Around the world Air Products continues to review and evaluate its entire robust supply chain, redundant back-up plans, and network of facilities to meet customer demands. This is a dynamic and fluid situation, which makes it difficult to predict its future impact or exact duration. We are controlling what we can, continually reviewing and updating our crisis and contingency plans, which may vary by product and plant location. We escalated our own company emergency response plans early, unlocking protective measures for our offices and production sites.  
Proactive measures taken around the world
We Stand Together

Air Products has and continues to take several protective measures to ensure the safety of our people and customers, while also maintaining business continuity. Some of these actions taken at locations around the globe include:

  • Having our employees work from home if they are in a role that allows them to do so. Offices and facilities remain open and operational in accordance with and local regulations and guidance from health authorities.
  • Restricting access to site visitors and holding virtual meetings instead of in-person meetings whenever possible.
  • For authorized people who must enter one of our sites, additional health protocols have been applied including: 1) Temperature checks at certain locations for employees, contractors, tenants and visitors; 2) Refined work procedures to allow social distancing for specific personnel and their operations; 3) Implementing carefully considered personal protective equipment at certain locations.
  • Reinforcing good hygiene practices amongst our workforce, and in parallel our sites have implemented increased cleaning and disinfecting frequency.
  • Restricting business travel per the latest guidelines from countries and local authorities around the world.

     

Safety and health
We have maintained our operations and provided our dedicated workforce with the appropriate safety and health protocols, including social distancing, enhanced cleaning procedures, self-reporting, screening activities, and required PPE. 
Ongoing collaboration between our company and customers
Our teams are continuously monitoring the real-time supply-demand balance, considering evolving resource challenges and issues as they develop and may change. If you do need to order product, then please contact us in the usual way. This will help to ensure your requirement can be correctly assessed as part of our scheduling process.

Likewise, please inform us if there are any changes that may affect our ability to meet our contractual obligations, such as changes to your location access procedures or the ability to continue granting us access to your facilities.

We will continue to provide you with updates, changes, and mitigation activities as appropriate during this challenging time for all of us in order to keep you abreast of the current status or other actions we may need to take relating to this event.
Communicating regular updates
Our Chairman, President and CEO, leadership teams and health response teams have been sharing information regularly with employees about ongoing actions to maintain the health and safety of our colleagues, customers, suppliers, and communities.
Providing work practices and standards to support employees during a health pandemic (like COVID-19)
Based on facts, information from health authorities, community transmission assessments, and our ability to continue to deliver essential products and services people need, our teams continue to make critical decisions about work arrangements for employees. Air Products has a global standard practice that details how we continue to pay employees in the event of a health pandemic like coronavirus. Additional regional practices are designed to address regulations and different health crisis circumstances across the world.
Offering 24x7 employee assistance programs
We continue to provide assistance programs and resources to support our employees and families.
Supporting relief efforts
The Air Products Foundation is making grants to support COVID-19 relief efforts in India and South America, directing $50,000USD to CARE (www.CARE.org) for India relief work, and $50,000USD to Direct Relief (www.directrelief.org) for humanitarian efforts in South America.

The Air Products Foundation awarded a $100,000 grant, approximately 700,000 renminbi, to assist COVID-19 recovery efforts in China, on top of an earlier donation of 500,000 renminbi, approximately $70,000, made by Air Products China to the Red Cross in China to support the most urgent medical care needs. 

Air Products Korea has donated KRW 100 million (equivalent to US $84,000) to the non-profit organization Community Chest of Korea to help fight against the outbreak.

Air Products Saudi Arabia has donated 50,000 SARS (equivalent to approximately U.S. $13,000) to the Charity Association for Orphans Care – BENAA – Eastern Province for their continued work to help orphans and widows affected by COVID-19.

In addition, Air Products has continued to deliver needed medical liquid oxygen and helium to hospitals. Where appropriate, we are also working with government authorities to share our knowledge and expertise in the supply chain of medical gases.
Appreciation
We certainly appreciate your patience, cooperation, and collaboration as we navigate through these challenging times together.

Delivering Vital Medical Oxygen & Providing Crucial Installations

Air Products' teams have provided critical medical oxygen deliveries as well as tank and vaporizer installations, replacements, and upgrades to meet the increased demand around the world amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Our teams have mobilized safely and quickly to meet increasing oxygen demand, and we are actively supporting medical facilities and the establishment of critical, temporary hospitals.

Supporting Customers in Critical Industries During COVID-19

Air Products continues to provide necessary gas supply, innovative technology, and expert support to our customers who are working hard to provide the crucial services and equipment for COVID-19 relief efforts. 
SUPPORTING CRITICAL INDUSTRIES

Message from Chairman, President and CEO Seifi Ghasemi

August 9, 2021 (Q3FY21 Excerpts)

“Our people, working together, have kept our 750 facilities around the world operating and our customers supplied throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. In support of the hard work and dedication demonstrated by our employees, we have not reduced staff or cut salaries during this difficult period.

Despite the challenging COVID-19 conditions, our team continues to focus on working safely, following our strict protocols to help protect themselves, our customers, and our communities.  As always, safety is the most important focus for all of us at Air Products, and our goal will always be zero accidents and zero incidents.  

We believe the environmental sustainability challenges facing the world are significant.  The scope and complexity of the megaprojects necessary to address these challenges require talented people with a variety of skills and backgrounds, from different parts of the world, to work together as one team.  We can solve these problems, no matter how challenging, as long as we all stay focused and united, working toward a common goal on a global basis.  We believe this is the calling of our company and the higher purpose for all of us at Air Products.”
 
All the best,  


Seifi Ghasemi