Praxair is celebrating the 100th anniversary of its founding as well as its 15th year as a publicly-traded corporation.
The original company was founded in Buffalo, New York in 1907, where it built North America’s first commercial cryogenic oxygen plant. In its early days, it played a pioneering role in the development and growth of the oxyacetylene welding process in the United States industry.
Since becoming a publicly traded New York stock exchange company in 1992, Praxair’s market value has grown from $2.15bn to $20bn. Its total shareholder return has averaged 17.7 percent every year since then.
Steve Angel, president and chief executive officer of Praxair, said: $quot;Today Praxair announced 2006 sales of $8.3bn, the highest in the company’s history.$quot;
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