Recognizing the team for winning the safety award, Ahmed Hababou, president of MEET and India, Air Products said:" Safety is our topmost priority and everyone's responsibility at Air Products. Our success is driven by our people. This award is a testament to the efforts of the team at Kochi for the work they do every day by exhibiting the highest standards of safety and service excellence in the region."
Adding his appreciation, Juan Gonzalez, executive director, Kochi, Air Products India said: “It is a proud moment for us to receive this recognition from the Kerala state government for the fifth year in a row. The Kochi team has worked hard and delivered an exceptional safety performance by truly demonstrating our total safety philosophy.”
Krishnan Jaishankar, Kochi facility head, Air Products India said:” We are honoured to receive the safety award. Each team member has played a role in maintaining a high level of safety awareness and commitment every day at work, that helped us achieving 2 million safe workhours with no lost time incidents (LTI). I look forward to our continued efforts to maintain industry leadership in safety performance."
Air Products Kochi Industrial Gas Complex was commissioned in 2017 to support the BPCL Kochi refinery and is the largest of its kind in India in terms of investment and houses one of the most efficient and integrated SMRs (Steam Methane Reformers) in Air Products' global plant fleet.
About Air Products
Air Products (NYSE:APD) is a world-leading industrial gases company in operation for over 80 years focused on serving energy, environmental, and emerging markets. The Company has two growth pillars driven by sustainability. Air Products’ base business provides essential industrial gases, related equipment and applications expertise to customers in dozens of industries, including refining, chemicals, metals, electronics, manufacturing, and food. The Company also develops, engineers, builds, owns and operates some of the world's largest industrial gas and carbon-capture projects, supplying world-scale clean hydrogen for global transportation, industrial markets, and the broader energy transition. Additionally, Air Products is the world leader in the supply of liquefied natural gas process technology and equipment, and globally -provides turbomachinery, membrane systems and cryogenic containers.
The Company had fiscal 2022 sales of $12.7 billion from operations in over 50 countries and has a current market capitalization of about $60 billion. More than 21,000 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 reimagine what's possible to address the challenges facing customers, communities, and the world. For more information, visit 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, 2022.