Joint Ventures and Subsidiaries
Cryoservice Limited
In 1998, Air Products acquired a minority stake in Cryoservice
Limited. Cryoservice Ltd. is an independent supplier of liquid
nitrogen, liquid argon, liquid oxygen and carbon dioxide to a
wide range of markets in the science, leisure and industrial sectors.
These liquid gases are supplied by tanker in small bulk quantities
to over 6000 of its own customers. In addition, they also supply
directly to a large number of Air Products customers positioned
in similar market segments. All these accounts are serviced from
depots that distribute throughout the whole of mainland Great
Britain.
Air Products - Medical Group
Air Products - Medical Group is the fastest growing medical gases
business in the UK. Based on many years' experience of supplying
the European medical gases market, Air Products - Medical Group
is currently introducing new ideas, technologies and service standards
to the UK medical market. In UK hospitals, the company is at the
forefront of new technologies and service standards for the supply
of medical oxygen in the 21st century. We supply medical gases
to every NHS Hospital in Scotland and are regularly winning new
supply contracts in England Air Products medical group is also
forging new links with the private sector.
Our Oxygen Therapy Division, which caters for home-based users
of oxygen, is also thriving, thanks in no small part to the acquisition
of the Cardiff-based Oxygen Therapy Company (OTC) in 1996.
Since then, OTC has been integrated into Air Products and together
we have developed a working philosophy that puts the patient first
and is as much about improving quality of life as sustaining life.
We currently operate in South West of England, South Wales, Tyneside,
and Yorkshire and over the next 12 months, the company will be
expanding into other regions in the UK.
Like our hospitals business, investment in new products and
services by Air Products - Medical Group is helping to drive change,
where the focus is on the patient, not just the mode of supply.
A prime example is the recently launched PA2, the lightest,
portable cylinder available on the NHS. Weighing only 3kg and
small enough to fit into a backpack, the PA2 is helping to change
the lives of thousands of previously housebound patients by enabling
them to do things most people take for granted, such as going
to the shops, taking the children to school or even just enjoying
the garden.
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