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Erwin Zwicky, CEO of metal carbides, named European President of Air Products

02/11/2007

November 2, 2007

Air Products, parent company of Metal carbides has announced the appointment of the current Chief Executive Officer of metallic carbides and Vice President for the South of Europe by Air Products, Erwin Zwicky, as European President of Air Products.

The performance of this new Office will be carried out from Barcelona, a city where the headquarters of metal carbides is located. This location boasts an increasingly greater weight within the structure of Air Products as well as evidenced installation this year of the new Centre for shared services (SSC) of Air Products for Europe at Cornell.

Zwicky, which has a long history within the company, became a part of Air Prodcuts in 1974 as a chemical engineer. In this role he developed his professional career in U.S and Brazil. In 1982 he was appointed commercial director for Mexico. Two years later moved to Belgium as manager for Benelux on - sites. In early 1990s he moved to England to fill the post of manager of the development team of business to the South of Europe. In 1994, settled in Barcelona with the objective of the post of general manager of liquefied gases and on - sites. Four years later, Zwicky will return to England where he was named general manager of gases liquefied for Europe. Before being appointed in 2002 Vice-President for southern Europe and Managing Director of metal carbides, he was appointed in 2000 Vice President of gas liquefied for the United Kingdom-Ireland.