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SEC FORM 3 SEC Form 3

FORM 3

UNITED STATES SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549

INITIAL STATEMENT OF BENEFICIAL OWNERSHIP OF SECURITIES

Filed pursuant to Section 16(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934
or Section 30(h) of the Investment Company Act of 1940

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1. Name and Address of Reporting Person^*

Flugel Russell A

(Last)

(First)

(Middle)

7201 HAMILTON BOULEVARD

(Street)

ALLENTOWN

18195

(City)

(State)

(Zip)

2. Date of Event Requiring Statement (Month/Day/Year)
05/21/2015

3. Issuer Name and Ticker or Trading Symbol
AIR PRODUCTS & CHEMICALS INC /DE/ [ APD ]

4. Relationship of Reporting Person(s) to Issuer
(Check all applicable)

	Director	10% Owner
X	Officer (give title below)	Other (specify below)
Chief Accounting Officer

5. If Amendment, Date of Original Filed (Month/Day/Year)

6. Individual or Joint/Group Filing (Check Applicable Line)

X	Form filed by One Reporting Person
	Form filed by More than One Reporting Person

Table I - Non-Derivative Securities Beneficially Owned
1. Title of Security (Instr. 4)	2. Amount of Securities Beneficially Owned (Instr. 4)	3. Ownership Form: Direct (D) or Indirect (I) (Instr. 5)	4. Nature of Indirect Beneficial Ownership (Instr. 5)
Common Stock	2,447	D
Common Stock	631.895	I	By RSP⁽¹⁾

Table II - Derivative Securities Beneficially Owned (e.g., puts, calls, warrants, options, convertible securities)
1. Title of Derivative Security (Instr. 4)	2. Date Exercisable and Expiration Date (Month/Day/Year)		3. Title and Amount of Securities Underlying Derivative Security (Instr. 4)		4. Conversion or Exercise Price of Derivative Security	5. Ownership Form: Direct (D) or Indirect (I) (Instr. 5)	6. Nature of Indirect Beneficial Ownership (Instr. 5)
1. Title of Derivative Security (Instr. 4)	Date Exercisable	Expiration Date	Title	Amount or Number of Shares	4. Conversion or Exercise Price of Derivative Security	5. Ownership Form: Direct (D) or Indirect (I) (Instr. 5)	6. Nature of Indirect Beneficial Ownership (Instr. 5)
Deferred Stock Units	08/08/1988	08/08/1988	Common Stock	2,456.498	0.0000⁽²⁾	D
Stock Option (Right to Buy)⁽³⁾	08/08/1988⁽⁴⁾	10/04/2015	Common Stock	1,300	55.33	D
Stock Option (Right to Buy)⁽³⁾	08/08/1988⁽⁴⁾	10/02/2018	Common Stock	6,128	66.9	D
Stock Option (Right to Buy)⁽³⁾	08/08/1988⁽⁴⁾	10/03/2016	Common Stock	2,000	67.23	D
Stock Option (Right to Buy)⁽³⁾	08/08/1988⁽⁴⁾	12/04/2022	Common Stock	3,886	81.57	D
Stock Option (Right to Buy)⁽³⁾	08/08/1988⁽⁴⁾	12/02/2021	Common Stock	3,379	82.64	D
Stock Option (Right to Buy)⁽³⁾	08/08/1988⁽⁴⁾	12/02/2019	Common Stock	3,406	83.6	D
Stock Option (Right to Buy)⁽³⁾	08/08/1988⁽⁴⁾	12/02/2020	Common Stock	3,230	86.39	D
Stock Option (Right to Buy)⁽³⁾	08/08/1988⁽⁴⁾	10/02/2017	Common Stock	2,200	98.85	D
Stock Option (Right to Buy)⁽³⁾	08/08/1988⁽⁴⁾	12/03/2023	Common Stock	3,989	107.69	D
Stock Option (Right to Buy)⁽³⁾	08/08/1988⁽⁴⁾	12/02/2024	Common Stock	764	144.09	D

Explanation of Responses:

1. Shares represented by units of interest in the Company Stock Fund held under the issuer's Retirement Savings Plan.

2. Not applicable to this security

3. Employee Stock Options granted under the issuer's Long-Term Incentive Plan.

4. These options become exercisable in one-third increments on the first three anniversaries of grant.

Remarks:

poa-flugel.txt

	Linda M. Svoboda as Attorney in Fact	05/22/2015
	** Signature of Reporting Person	Date
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POWER OF ATTORNEY

KNOW ALL BY THESE PRESENTS, that the undersigned hereby constitutes and
appoints each of Mary T. Afflerbach, Andrea I Rennig, John D. Stanley,
and Linda M. Svoboda, signing singly, the
Undersigneds true and lawful attorney in fact to:

(1) execute for and on behalf of the undersigned, in the undersigned's
capacity as an officer and/or director of Air Products and Chemicals,
Inc., (the Company), Forms 3, 4, and 5 in accordance with, and any
other reports of the undersigned with respect to equity securities of
the Company required under, Section 16(a) of the Securities Exchange
Act of 1934 and the rules thereunder;

(2) execute Forms 144 with respect to the sale of equity securities of
the Company in accordance with Rule 144(h) promulgated under the
Securities Act of 1933;

(3) do and perform any and all acts for and on behalf of the undersigned
which may be necessary or desirable to complete and execute any such
Form 3, 4, or 5 or other report or Form 144, complete and execute any
amendment or amendments thereto, and timely file such form with the
United States Securities and Exchange Commission and any stock exchange
or other authority; and

(4) take any other action of any type whatsoever in connection with the
foregoing which, in the opinion of such attorney-in-fact, may be of
benefit to, in the best interest of, or legally required by, the
undersigned, it being understood that the documents executed by such
attorney-in-fact on behalf of the undersigned pursuant to this Power of
Attorney shall be in such form and shall contain such terms and conditions
as such attorney-in-fact may approve in such attorney-in-fact's discretion.

The undersigned hereby grants to each such attorney-in-fact full power
and authority to do and perform any and every act and thing whatsoever
requisite, necessary, or proper to be done in the exercise of any of the
rights and powers herein granted, as fully to all intents and purposes
as the undersigned might or could do if personally present, with full
power of substitution or revocation, hereby ratifying and confirming all
that such attorney-in-fact, or such attorney-in-fact's substitute or
substitutes, shall lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue of this
power of attorney and the rights and powers herein granted. The
undersigned acknowledges that the foregoing attorneys-in-fact, in
serving in such capacity at the request of the undersigned, are not
assuming, nor is the Company assuming, any of the undersigned's
responsibilities to comply with Section 16 of the Securities Exchange
Act of 1934.

This Power of Attorney shall remain in full force and effect until
the undersigned is no longer required to file Forms 3, 4, and 5 with
respect to the undersigned's holdings of and transactions in securities
issued by the Company, unless earlier revoked by the undersigned in a
signed writing delivered to the foregoing attorneys-in-fact.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has caused this Power of Attorney
to be executed as of this 22nd day of May 2015.

					s/ Russell A. Flugel
                                           Russell A. Flugel