S.
NPRA's President Bob Slaughter said, "Protecting the health and
safety of employees and communities and safeguarding the environment
are fundamental values of all NPRA members. Our members' goal is the elimination of all
work-related injuries and illnesses. refining capacity as well
as most U.

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Air Products' Ermentrout Honored With SEMI Akira Inoue Award

Naval Academy in 1970 and an M. This represents 74 Regular member companies with refining
and petrochemical facilities and 78 Associate member industry
contractors. NPRA 's comprehensive safety program -- including the
safety awards program, the National Safety Conference and the annual
injuries and illnesses survey -- helps to promote accident prevention
and safety best practices. Seventy-one facilities also received
the Award for Safety Achievement for operating 1,000,000 or more
employee hours without a lost workday case involving days away from
work.

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Ermentrout began his career with Air Products in 1975 as a participant in
the company's Career Development Program, becoming a sales engineer in 1976. They are making excellent
progress and will continue their commitment to employee safety and
facility security.'s Baton Rouge Polyolefins Plant and Mont Belvieu Plastics
Plant and Valero Refining Co. The Meritorious
Safety Performance Award for operating facilities are used for the
Contractor Merit Award: A contractor must achieve a total recordable
incidence rate of 1.

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About SEMI
SEMI is a global industry association serving companies that provide
equipment, materials and services used to manufacture semiconductors ,
displays, nano-scaled structures, micro-electromechanical systems (MEMS) and
related technologies .2 or less while working a minimum of
50,000 man hours for the 2004 calendar year.

NPRA is a national trade association whose members include the
owners and operators of virtually all U.

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from Lehigh
University in 1980. Mr. These locations were accorded special recognition
for attaining a superior level of safety performance based on a
thorough evaluation by a Selection Committee of industry safety
professionals of each facility's safety program and commitment, as
well as their current and past safety records.

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Inoue was a champion of environmental
protection and employee health and safety within the semiconductor industry. We believe that the strong
turnout for this year's safety banquet, up over 60% this year, speaks
to the dedication and vigilance of the men and women who are on the
front lines of operations at the nation's refineries and petrochemical
facilities . petrochemical manufacturers.

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For more information, visit http://www. Actual
results could vary materially, due to changes in current expectations. The
awards presentation took place before a record attendance at the
Safety Awards Banquet held as part of NPRA's National Safety
Conference May 11 - 12, 2005 in New Orleans, LA. In 2004, 268
awards were presented to 78 companies for outstanding contractor
safety performance at 126 facilities.

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Air Products' achievements cited by the Akira Inoue Award committee in the
selection of Ermentrout include:

-- Attainment of the lowest US OSHA recordable injury rate among member
companies of the American Chemistry Council from 2000 to 2003 - at
roughly half of the industry average,

-- Implementation of a division-wide Basic Safety Process (BSP) which
identifies hazardous situations to prevent accidents,

-- Provision of turnkey operation of hazardous materials handling at
customer sites, minimizing the potential for customers to come into
contact with potentially harmful substances resulting in an average
93 percent reduction in incidents per container change since 1998,

-- Annual reduction of 8.B.org.

***NOTE: This release may contain forward-looking statements.

Since 1995, the total recordable incidence rate (TRIR ) for
refining members dropped from 3.

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0 to 1.2 to 0.
The Award for Meritorious Safety Performance , Gold Award, Safety
Achievement Award, and Contractor Award for Meritorious Safety
Performance are based on records kept for employees in accordance with
OSHA recordkeeping requirements as defined by law and entered on the
OSHA 300A form.

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Award Recognizes Outstanding Environmental, Health and Safety Achievement
in the Semiconductor Industry

LEHIGH VALLEY , Pa. SEMI maintains offices in Austin, Beijing, Brussels,
Hsinchu, Moscow, San Jose (Calif.1 billion ,
operations in over 30 countries, and over 20,000 employees around the globe. Last
year, 36 NPRA member facilities worked the entire year without a
single recordable case.
The Award for Meritorious Safety Performance was presented to 142
facilities operated by NPRA member companies for achieving a total
recordable incidence rate of 1.

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), Seoul, Shanghai, Singapore, Tokyo and
Washington, D .C.airproducts."
The Association's most prestigious award, the Distinguished Safety
Award, was presented to three recipients this year: ExxonMobil
Chemical Co.

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"Under Jerry Ermentrout's leadership, Air Products' Electronics Division
has achieved industry-leading status in environmental, health and safety
performance while growing roughly three times in size," said Stanley Myers,
president and CEO of SEMI. Ermentrout earned a B. The company is
recognized for its innovative culture, operational excellence and commitment
to safety and the environment and is listed in the Dow Jones Sustainability
and FTSE4Good Indices. This is the third
DSA for ExxonMobil 's Baton Rouge Polyolefins Plant, the fourth DSA for
the Mont Belvieu Plastics Plant and the first award for Valero's
Wilmington Refinery.

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Engineering from the U. Founded in
1940, Air Products has built leading positions in key growth markets
such as semiconductor materials, refinery hydrogen , home healthcare services,
natural gas liquefaction, and advanced coatings and adhesives.com.

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NEW ORLEANS----NPRA, the National
Petrochemical + Refiners Association, today recognized individual
facilities in the petroleum refining and petrochemical manufacturing
industries and also contractors supporting these industries for their
excellent record of safe operations during calendar year 2004.

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It is a positive factor in the continuous
improvement being made. Since 1995, the
TRIR for petrochemical members dropped from 2. In 2004, the facilities that
received this recognition were Placid Refinery Company LLC and Sasol
North America, Inc.

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Appointed general
manager for the Electronics Division in 1992, he assumed his current position
as vice president and general manager in 1996.
The Akira Inoue Award is named after the late Akira Inoue, past president
and representative director of Tokyo Electron Limited and a former member of
the SEMI Board of Directors.
The Contractor Award for Meritorious Safety Performance is awarded
to process area contractors on a per site basis who are nominated by a
Regular refinery or petrochemical facility member.

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NPRA National Safety Conference Expects Record Crowd at Safety Banquet Recognizing Industry Safety Progress; ExxonMobil Chemical Co. Valero Refining Co. Win H

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About Air Products
Air Products (NYSE: APD) serves customers in technology, energy,
healthcare and industrial markets worldwide with a unique portfolio of
products, services and solutions, providing atmospheric gases, process and
specialty gases, performance materials and chemical intermediates .
"NPRA members have shown a continuous drop in recordable incidence
rates.16 in 2004.
The Association honored two facilities with the Distinguished
Safety Award Honorable Mention, presented to a site that has passed
the initial screening criteria of the DSA application, exhibited
excellent safety performance and program innovation and showed promise
of achieving DSA status in the future.

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2 million pounds of hazardous wastes and an
additional 20 million pounds of raw material and process gases at the
world's largest specialty gas manufacturing facility,

-- Development of a fundamental understanding and advanced process
analytical capability in support of nitrogen trifluoride chamber
cleaning, which led to a significant reduction of global warming gas
emissions,

-- Development of a screening procedure that was adopted by the
Compressed Gas Association to identify products which should be
designated as "Restricted Use" and a process for qualifying potential
customers to whom materials should be provided ,

-- Development and implementation of a Security Vulnerability Assessment
(SVA ) system for the Division which was recently approved and adopted
by the American Chemistry Council,

-- Demanding and receiving the same high level of safety and
environmental performance from his teams around the world, regardless
of local customs or competitive pressures .'s Lake Charles Chemical Complex.
Recipients of the Award for Safety Achievement included 119
facilities for operating one or more years without a lost workday case
involving days away from work.

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The company has annual revenues of $8. Gold Award certificates
were presented to 101 facilities for achieving at least a 25%
reduction in the total recordable incidence rate during the 2004
calendar year as compared to the average total recordable incidence
rate for the three previous calendar years .S.

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In 1983, he was named business area manager for Standard Plants, and in 1987
became general manager of the Process Industries Department.A.
SEMI established the Akira Inoue Award to recognize individuals in industry
and academia who have made significant EH+S contributions to the semiconductor
industry and to society.S.

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, Air Products
(NYSE: APD) today announced that Jerry Ermentrout, vice president and general
manager of its Electronics Division, has been honored with the 2005 Akira
Inoue Award from SEMI, a global industry association serving equipment,
material and service providers of the semiconductor industry. The Akira Inoue
Award, presented at SEMICON Japan in December, recognizes outstanding
achievement in environmental, health and safety (EH+S) performance in the
semiconductor industry.

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's Wilmington Refinery.2 or less for the 2004 calendar year at an
individual site with the qualifier that the contractor must have
worked a minimum of 20,000 hours at that client site.
The presentation of the NPRA safety awards is part of a
comprehensive safety awards program developed by the Association's
Fire and Accident Prevention Committee to promote accident prevention
in the petroleum refining and petrochemical manufacturing industries,
and to publicly recognize the excellent record of safety in operations
which the industry has compiled.

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"Through his visionary business model, Jerry has
established himself as a capable, responsible steward of the environment and
demonstrated that companies can achieve outstanding financial performance
while simultaneously protecting the health and safety of employees, customers
and neighbors.S. Klesse, NPRA Chairman of the Board and Chief Operating
Officer, Valero Energy Corporation, presented 706 awards to 86
refineries , 99 petrochemical plants, and 126 sites with contractor
recognition.

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For more information, visit http://www.95 in 2004.

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