Shanghai Chemical Industry Park Industrial Gases Company, a 50-50 joint venture between Praxair Inc. and Air Liquide, two leading global suppliers of industrial gases, was recently awarded a 15-year industrial gases pipeline supply contract to supply hydrogen and carbon monoxide to Bayer Polyurethanes (Shanghai) Company.

Industrial gas provider Praxair (China) Investment Company has set up a joint venture in Guangzhou with the China Petroleum and Chemical Corporation; and this is the first alliance between the two companies.

Praxair China has signed a new contract to supply liquid nitrogen to Chery Automobile Company, one of the leading automobile manufacturers in China.

Shanghai based industrial gas provider Praxair China has signed a contract with Hebei Baiqi Pharmaceutical Company to supply nitrogen for its pharmaceutical production requirements.

Praxair (China) Investment Co., Ltd. has signed a gases supply contract with Guangzhou Longxue Shipbuilding Co., Ltd., an affiliate of the China State Shipbuilding Corporation.

Praxair (China) Investment Co., Ltd. is notifying industrial gas customers in China of a 10 percent price increase, effective July 1, 2008, or as contracts permit.

Praxair China, a subsidiary of Praxair, Inc., has signed a contract to supply liquid nitrogen and an advanced nitrogen cooling system to Jiangsu Defeng Pharmaceutical & Chemical Co., Ltd.

Praxair China has signed a deal with Zhenshi Group Eastern Special Steel Company to supply oxygen, nitrogen and argon for its 500,000-ton stainless steel project.

Praxair China has signed a long-term supply agreement with Nanjing-based Meishan Iron & Steel Company, a subsidiary of the Baosteel Group, to build two new air separation plants to come on line in the fourth quarter of 2009 and third quarter of 2010.

Praxair China has signed a 15-year supply contract with Jinlong Copper Co., Ltd., the largest copper smelting joint venture in China, located in Tongling, Anhui Province.