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Subject to these terms, conditions and restrictions, Air Products and Chemicals, Inc. ("Air Products") and its subsidiaries and affiliated joint venture companies and business partners ("Affiliates") grant to each user of this site a non-exclusive, non-transferable, limited right to access, use and display this site and the information presented on this site. No user shall attempt to interfere with the operation of this site in any way. For purposes of these terms, conditions and restrictions, other communication media employed in conjunction with use of this site, including telephone and video augmentation, shall be deemed to be part of this site and the information provided in such other communication media shall be deemed to be information presented on this site. This site is not intended for use by any natural person under eighteen years of age and no license to use the site is granted to such persons.

Air Products maintains this site for itself and as a convenience for its Affiliates, agents and distributors, and for customers of its Affiliates, agents and distributors. Such users may use this site for product ordering purposes or for other informational needs. This site is provided by Air Products primarily for sharing common product information and website resources. Unless expressly stated otherwise, this site is not intended to establish any new or additional privity of contract, or agency or other relationship between Air Products and such users or any other party. No agency, employment or franchise relationship with Air Products is being created through use of this site.

The information and functionality contained in this site has been provided as a convenience and, in some cases, is provided by outside sources. This site has been supplied upon the condition that you will make your own determination as to the suitability of information contained in this site before use and that you have the proper qualifications or expertise to properly evaluate and use that information. None of the information presented on this site is intended as legal or tax advice; competent legal or tax advisors should be consulted as required. Although we attempt to make all information accurate at the time it is posted to the site, we cannot guarantee or warrant completeness or accuracy, or that information will be updated. We make no representation that the information contained on the site is appropriate or available for use in all countries, and access to information from places where the site's contents are illegal is prohibited. Your local Air Products contact can assist you with the availability of our products and services. The nature of forward looking statements is described in the Air Products annual report and related financial documents. We may, in our sole discretion and at any time, change site content or these terms, conditions and restrictions, or modify or discontinue this site or specific portions of it, without notice. Subsequent re-use of this site shall be deemed an agreement to any previously revised terms, conditions and restrictions.

Air Products and its Affiliates maintain material safety data sheets (MSDSs) on all of their respective chemical products. You are urged to obtain copies of the relevant MSDSs before using these products to enhance the protection of your employees and customers against any known health or safety hazards described in those MSDSs. Air Products and its Affiliates strive to make safety a top priority. Therefore, do not hesitate to contact us to discuss any safety aspects of these products. Certain areas of this site have been designed to provide online safety or process training or advice. In all, cases, such training or advice is based only on the specific factual information provided to us; the scope of our training or advice is limited to the scope of coverage and limiting assumptions and premises identified in our response.

Any action related to these Website Terms and Conditions and/or use of this site will be governed by the law of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, United States of America, without regard to the choice or conflicts of law provisions of any jurisdiction.

The existence of this site and the ability to request information or request or order products through the site is not an offer to sell or solicit or do business in those countries or jurisdictions in which we are not permitted by law to do business or in which we do not already conduct business. Neither the existence of this site nor the accessibility of content of this site is intended to establish any new or additional jurisdictional or tax contacts or relationships for or between Air Products or any Affiliate within any country or jurisdiction in which Air Products or that Affiliate does not already conduct business. You are responsible for compliance with all local laws applicable to you with respect to accessing the content and operation of this site. You agree to submit to the jurisdiction of the courts located in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania for the resolution of all disputes arising from or related to these Website Terms and Conditions and/or your use of the site.

Nothing contained in this site shall constitute an offer by Air Products or any of its Affiliates to buy or sell products or services. No agreement to buy or sell products or services shall be formed by means of the use of this site until an order is placed by a user and then accepted by Air Products or one of its Affiliates, in the manner described in the specific ordering information provided with the online product or service descriptions. Once an agreement has been formed, the terms and conditions of the agreement shall be the terms and conditions of Air Products or its Affiliate governing the purchase or sale, as the case may be, presented on-line at the time of order. All product requests or orders are subject to prevailing law, including, as appropriate, export and import regulations and boycotting restrictions, if any, imposed by governing bodies having jurisdiction over such product requests or orders. Air Products provides the APDirect® Customer Service Portal to prequalified buyers on behalf of Air Products and its Affiliates. The “Seller” in each transaction shall be identified at the time of order acceptance. For those products for which pricing is not available at the time of the order, Buyer shall have the right to cancel its order pursuant to Seller’s cancellation notice policy after Buyer is notified of such pricing and of Seller’s identity.

For your convenience, this site contains hyperlinks to other websites unrelated to Air Products or its Affiliates. If you use these links, you will leave this site. We are not responsible for the privacy practices, security or content of any such linked sites. Links to other sites do not imply that Air Products endorses, approves, or sponsors any information available at the linked site or any products or services that may be sold there, nor is Air Products or its Affiliates liable for any damage that might result from your use of such information, products or services. We make no representations about the hyperlinks that other parties may appear to have to this site but which are not active links to the most current information.

The use of a technology called "cookies" is now an industry standard, and part of most major websites. "Cookies" are small pieces of information that are stored by your web browser software on your hard drive or temporarily in the memory of your computer. Cookies can be useful to you because it helps you move more quickly through a web site by recording information from your last visit to a site, such as user name, registration information and pages viewed. In addition to recording website usage, cookies track traffic patterns, add advertisements for goods or services of interest, and estimate website audience size. Some of the webpages of this site use cookies to better serve your needs for return visits to this site. Your browser can be set to notify you when a cookie is received so that you may choose whether to accept it.

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This site is maintained and operated by Air Products from its offices within the United States. We make no representation that the information or other materials accessed through this site are appropriate or available for use in other locations, and access to them from other countries where their contents are illegal is prohibited. Those who choose to access the information or the site from other locations do so on their own volition and are responsible for compliance with applicable local laws. You may not export or re-export any information or products received hereunder except in full compliance with all United States laws and regulations. In particular, the information or products may not be exported or re-exported into (or to a national or resident of) any country to which the United States embargoes goods, or to anyone on the U.S. Treasury Department's list of Specially Designated Nationals or the U.S. Commerce Department's Table of Denial Orders. In addition, you are responsible for complying with any local laws in your country, which may impact your right to import, export or use the information or products.

This site may contain chat rooms or bulletin boards for the convenience of users of this site, Air Products, and its Affiliates. Air Products does not control the materials or information placed in these media. No user shall: (i) interfere with another user's use of such media on this site; (ii) post unlawful, obscene, threatening, libelous, defamatory, scandalous, inflammatory, pornographic, profane, or indecent material or any material that could constitute or encourage conduct that would be considered a criminal offense, give rise to civil liability, or otherwise violate any law; (iii) post material infringing upon any copyright, trademark or similar proprietary material; (iv) violate the privacy or publicity rights of others; (v) post material containing viruses or other harmful elements; or (vi) post material for commercial or advertising purposes. Air Products may, from time to time, monitor or review discussions, chats or postings in the chat rooms or on bulletin boards. However, Air Products is under no obligation to do so and assumes no responsibility or liability arising from the content of any such discussions, chats or postings or for any error, defamation, libel, slander, omission, falsehood, obscenity, pornography, profanity, danger or inaccuracy contained in any such discussions, chats or postings. Air Products reserves the right to disclose any information: (x) required to satisfy legal or governmental requirements; (y) in cooperation with any law enforcement authorities or court order; or (z) if it has a good faith belief that such disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the rights, property or personal safety of Air Products, its Affiliates, their employees, shareholders or customers or the public. Air Products reserves the right to remove or deny the posting of any material that Air Products deems objectionable in its sole judgment. Air Products may prosecute improper tampering with or use of this site to the full extent of the law.

Air Products owns the copyright for all of the material on this site or has a valid right from a third party to use material on this site. Trademarks and trade names belonging to Air Products or its Affiliates are protected under the laws of various jurisdictions and have been registered in various countries where registration is legally required or considered to be beneficial. No part of this site may be copied, reproduced, republished, uploaded, posted, transmitted or distributed in any way, except that you may download one copy of the materials on any single computer for your personal, non-commercial home use only, provided you keep intact all copyright, trademark and other proprietary notices on the materials. Any modification of the materials or use of the materials for any other purpose is a violation of copyright and other proprietary rights of Air Products and its Affiliates. The use of any such material on any other site or computer network without the prior written consent of Air Products or its Affiliates, as applicable, is prohibited. Permission to link to our information will not be granted to a site that frames or otherwise presents our information in a manner that does not attribute such information to us. Your use of the trademarks, service marks and trade names on this site in any manner other than as authorized in these terms, conditions and restrictions, or as authorized in writing by Air Products or its Affiliates, is strictly prohibited. Presentation of information in this site is not intended to confer any proprietary or other rights in our trademarks, tradenames, copyrights, patents or other proprietary rights or information nor is it intended to infringe patent rights or other intellectual property rights held by others. Linking to other sites does not imply that Air Products or the linked site has any legal authorization to any trademark, trade name, logo or copyright of the other.

This site does not accept notices sent by electronic means, and no digital or electronic sound, video, action, or signature implemented through this site shall bind Air Products or its Affiliates, unless (i) prior written arrangements have been made by our duly authorized officers or their appointed representatives or (ii) with respect to a particular portion of our site, such portion invites electronic contracting in a specific manner, in which case electronic action in such manner shall bind us and you as a user on the terms and conditions provided. Clicking on "I submit" or "I agree" or "I accept" buttons on this site are intended as a binding electronic acceptance whose contract provisions are those terms and conditions provided online. Similarly, use of this site constitutes the user's binding agreement to these terms, conditions and restrictions and our binding agreement to provide the information on this site on that basis.

The privacy and the security of your information is important to us. We take care to ensure that the online data profiles that you create and submit to us on this site are used by us, our affiliates and our business partners to fulfill our internal purposes in serving you as a customer, including fulfilling product orders, or, as a prospective customer, notifying you of our products and services that we think might be of interest to you. We use industry-standard security measures to protect these profiles and to ensure the security and fulfillment of your online orders through our site. Our site's security measures are intended to protect the loss, misuse or alteration of information under our control. These measures may not fully protect such information in all cases, therefore you should exercise care in using this site. Unless we are required to do so by law, we will not reveal to any party, other than our affiliates and business partners, your online profile that you submitted to us. We will not sell or publicize your online profile or any materials or other information specific to your identity submitted by you to us online, unless: (i) we first receive your permission; (ii) we notify you before we collect your online profile, materials or other information that such could be published, sold or traded; (iii) required by law; (iv) we feel it is necessary in order to protect the integrity or security of our site; (v) in conjunction with the sale of substantially all of the business of the product line(s), to which your individual online profile relates; (vi) required by the "company" identified in your individual online profile or (vii) you have violated our site terms, conditions and restrictions and we feel it is necessary to protect our business or is in the interest of an individual's personal safety. You have the right upon request to view and verify the contents of your online profile. Periodically, we create statistical reports that include aggregate data regarding our customers. These reports may also include information on sales, traffic patterns, and similar site related information. The amount of information we gather from you may depend on the settings you have on your browser; please refer to your browser to learn what information it sends. Our reports are used for various purposes, including improving our site. Aggregate data may be shared with external parties, such as industry trade associations, marketing organizations, or organizations providing actuarial, research study or similar services. However, no information by which any individual customer could be identified is part of the aggregate data that is shared. Some of the applications on this site require either prequalification or registration with us before access is granted. Once access is granted, you will choose a username and password. You should safeguard your password carefully and make it available only to those persons whom you authorize as your agent. You may not otherwise sell, resell, assign or transfer your access rights. It is our policy to grant access to anyone using your password in conjunction with your username and to treat anyone using your username and password as your agent for all purposes. You should notify us immediately of any unauthorized use of such password. For your convenience, this site may contain links to other websites. We can make no promises or guarantees regarding the privacy policies of other websites or the data collection practices of such websites. We recommend that you read the privacy policy for each website you visit. This privacy and security statement is subject to our

Last updated 26 June 2009

Forward Looking Statements

This presentation contains “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 document 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, including, without limitation, continuing deterioration in economic and business conditions; weakening demand for the company's products, future financial and operating performance of major customers and industries served by the Company; unanticipated contract terminations or customer cancellations or postponement of projects and sales; asset impairments due to economic conditions or specific product or customer events; the impact of competitive products and pricing; interruption in ordinary sources of supply of raw materials; the ability to recover unanticipated increased energy and raw material costs from customers; costs and outcomes of litigation or regulatory activities; consequences of acts of war or terrorism impacting the United States’ and other markets; the effects of a pandemic or epidemic or a natural disaster; charges related to current portfolio management and cost reduction actions; the success of implementing cost reduction programs and achieving anticipated acquisition synergies; the timing, impact, and other uncertainties of future acquisitions or divestitures; the ability to attract, hire and retain qualified personnel in all regions of the world where the Company operates; significant fluctuations in interest rates and foreign currencies from that currently anticipated; the continued availability of capital funding sources in all of the Company's foreign operations; the impact of new or changed environmental, healthcare, tax or other legislation and regulations in jurisdictions in which the Company and its affiliates operate; the impact of new or changed financial accounting standards; and the timing and rate at which tax credits can be utilized. The Company disclaims any obligation or undertaking to disseminate any updates or revisions to any forward-looking statements contained in this document to reflect any change in the Company’s assumptions, beliefs or expectations or any change in events, conditions or circumstances upon which any such forward-looking statements are based.