With 2007 sales of $9.4 billion, Praxair, Inc. (NYSE:PX) is a global, Fortune 300 company that supplies atmospheric, process and specialty gases, high-performance coatings, and related services and technologies to a wide diversity of customers. Praxair’s primary products are: » atmospheric gases -- oxygen, nitrogen, argon, and rare gases (produced when air is purified, compressed, cooled, distilled and condensed), and » process & specialty gases -- carbon dioxide, helium, hydrogen, semiconductor process gases, and acetylene (produced as by-products of chemical production or recovered from natural gas).