Air Products South Africa (Pty) Limited manufactures, supplies and distributes a wide variety of industrial and specialty gas products and chemicals to the Southern African region. The company has a workforce of 415.
Registered as a private South African controlled company on 12 March 1969 on the basis of a 50/50 joint venture between Iscor and Air Products (U.S.A). Iscor Ltd., the company subsequently transferred their shareholding into the Metkor Group Holdings, a quoted company on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange. Today, the Metkor Group is controlled by Remgro. Senior management executives and representatives of the joint venture shareholders have been appointed to the Board of Directors.
The company has grown rapidly over the past 41 years in utilising its world-class production and distribution facilities throughout Southern Africa to become the largest supplier in the on-site and pipeline market as well as a leader in the bulk, cylinder, specialty gas and chemicals supply markets. Liquid and gaseous product is distributed to customers throughout South Africa using its modern fleet of the cryogenic tankers and cylinder trucks to provide reliable supplies of gases such as oxygen, nitrogen, argon, hydrogen and carbon dioxide to major corporations in the steel, stainless steel, chemical, petrochemical and engineering industries.
