Linde AG is an international company with three principle activity areas: industrial gases, plant engineering, and materials handling, headquartered in Wiesbaden, Germany. In 2005 the company had annual sales of €9.5 billion and 42,000 employees.^[1] Linde AG stock is traded on the German stock exchanges and on the SWX in Zurich. The shares form part of the DAX 30 index with the symbol LIN. In March 2006 Linde made a preliminary proposal to acquire The BOC Group for €11.7 billion. ^[2] Industrial gas is a group of gases that are commercially manufactured and sold for uses in other applications. ... Wiesbaden is a city in central Germany. ... Employment is a contract between two parties, one being the employer and the other being the employee. ... DAX chart in the Frankfurt Stock Exchange DAX (abbreviated from Deutscher Aktienindex) is a Blue Chip stock market index consisting of the 30 major German companies trading on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange. ... The BOC Group is the official name of the multi-national industrial gas company more commonly known as BOC. As of 2003, BOC has over 44,000 employees on six continents, with sales of over £4. ...

Business Activities

Linde AG today is made up of two principle divisions: Linde Gas and Engineering, and Materials Handling.

• Linde Gas and Engineering comprises two sub-divisions.
  • Linde Gas is a supplier of a wide range of industial gases and chemicals. These may be supplied in portable high-pressure cylinders, in liquefied form by road tanker, or in gaseous form via pipeline to large customers.
  • Linde Engineering designs and builds large-scale chemical plants for the production of industrial gases including Oxygen, Nitrogen, Argon, Hydrogen and Carbon Monoxide , LPG liquefaction plants, and plants for the manufacture of Olefins.

• Linde Materials Handling manufactures materials handling equipment such as fork lift trucks and warehouse equipment under three principle brandnames: Linde Lansing, STILL, and OM Pimespo.

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History

On 21 June 1879, Professor Doctor Carl von Linde founded the Gesellschaft für Linde’s Eismaschinen Aktiengesellschaft to develop further his work in developing mechanical refrigeration systems for the brewing and food industries. Following success in this market, he moved on to developing lower temperature systems resulting in 1895 in a patent covering the liquefaction of air. Out of this work his company developed equipment for the separation of air and other gases. One of the first large-scale air separation plants was installed in Höllriegelskreuth, near Munich in 1903. June 21 is the 172nd day of the year (173rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar, with 193 days remaining. ... 1879 (MDCCCLXXIX) was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... Carl Paul Gottfried von Linde (born 11 June 1842 in Berndorf (Oberfranken); died 16 November 1934 in Munich) was a German engineer who developed the basics of modern refrigeration technology. ... Munich and the Bavarian Alps Munich (German: München, (pronounced listen) is the largest city and capital of the German Federal State of Bavaria. ...

In addition to plants air separation, in 1906 Linde engineers started working with other on processes to separate the constituents of water gas. This work developed into capabilities in the manufacture of Hydrogen and Carbon Monoxide, which were further key feedstocks for the emerging chemicals industry. Syngas (from synthesis gas) is the name given to gasses of varying composition that are generated in coal gasification and some types of waste-to-energy facilities. ... Italic textLink titleLink titlelink titlelink titleBold text General Name, Symbol, Number hydrogen, H, 1 Chemical series nonmetals Group, Period, Block 1, 1, s Appearance colorless Atomic mass 1. ... Carbon monoxide, chemical formula CO, is a colorless, odorless, tasteless, flammable and highly toxic gas. ...

In addition to his interests in refrigeration, Carl von Linde had also partnered with Hugo Güldner and others in 1904 to form the Güldner Motoren-Gesellschaft mbH in Aschaffenburg. Linde took full ownership of the company in 1929, and from this origin developed a business manufacturing first engines and tractors, and then from the 1950's onwards, a range of mechanical handling equipment such as fork lift trucks. A forklift that is extended halfway. ...

Linde has had a complex history of takeovers, mergers and divestments, and in 2000 completed the aquisition of Aktiebolag Gasaccumulator AB (AGA AB) of Sweden. This was followed in 2004 with the divestment of the original core of the Linde business - the refrigeration division - to Carrier Corporation of the USA.^[3] AGA, previously AB Gas-accumulator and AB Svenska Gasaccumulator, was a Swedish company. ... The Carrier Corporation is the air conditioning manufacturing division of United Technologies. ...

References

1. ↑ Linde Annual Report 2005.
2. ↑ BBC, 6 March 2006
3. ↑ Linde Corporate Heritage

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