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Company description
AIR PRODUCTS PUBLIC LIMITED COMPANY is a UK company whose Companies House status is “Active” and whose registered company type is “Public Limited Company”. Incorporated on 5 July 1909; registered for 117 years; registered office reported in CHERTSEY, ENGLAND. Its primary declared activity is 20110 · Manufacture of industrial gases.
This BritDB profile also contains linked public records: 1 PSC record, 18 procurement records, 1 waste registration, 1 other public-register record. This description is assembled from public data, is not a reliability assessment, and should be checked against the cited sources before a legally significant decision.
Web facts are never added from a name match alone. Internet enrichment requires the exact Companies House ID in Wikidata, and ambiguous results are excluded.
01 Company overview
Identity and registration
- Official name
- AIR PRODUCTS PUBLIC LIMITED COMPANY
- Company number
- 00103881
- Company type
- Public Limited Company
- Status
- Active
- Country of origin
- United Kingdom
- Dissolution date
- Not supplied
- Accounts category
- FULL
- Mortgage charges
- 1 total · 0 outstanding · 1 satisfied
- Limited partnership members
- 0 general · 0 limited
A registered office is not necessarily a trading location. The address is reproduced from the Companies House bulk record and should be interpreted in that legal context.
02 Filing dates
Accounts and statements
Last accounts made up to
30 September 2025Next accounts due
31 March 2027Last statement made up to
25 May 2026Next statement due
8 June 2027BritDB does not infer overdue status when the source does not state it.
03 Workforce reporting
Gender pay gap
- Median bonus gap
- -14.1%
- Mean bonus gap
- -6.3%
- Women receiving bonus
- 93.4%
- Men receiving bonus
- 97.2%
- Women in top quartile
- 22.1%
- Women in upper middle quartile
- 18.1%
- Women in lower middle quartile
- 15.4%
- Women in lower quartile
- 33.7%
Earlier reporting years (8)
- 1000 to 499910.6% median hourly gap
- 1000 to 499996.2% median hourly gap
- 1000 to 49996.2% median hourly gap
- 1000 to 49999.9% median hourly gap
- 1000 to 49998.8% median hourly gap
- 1000 to 49999.7% median hourly gap
- 1000 to 499914.0% median hourly gap
- 1000 to 499914.5% median hourly gap
Positive gaps mean men were paid more; negative gaps mean women were paid more. These figures are employer-reported and describe the workforce distribution, not equal pay for the same job. The company link uses the exact Companies House number supplied by the service.
04 Supplier payments
Payment practices and performance
- Reporting period
- 1 October 2025 – 31 March 2026
- Filed
- 27 April 2026
- Shortest standard term
- 0 days
- Longest standard term
- Not supplied
- E-invoicing offered
- Yes
- Supply-chain finance
- Not offered
- Payment codes
- No
- Construction retentions
- No qualifying construction contracts
Complete reported payment fields
- Policy regime
- Regime-3
- Financial period started
- 1 October 2025
- Qualifying contracts
- Yes
- Payments made
- Yes
- Invoice value paid within 30 days
- £13,652,154
- Invoice value paid in 31–60 days
- £18,105,309
- Invoice value paid after 60 days
- £3,977,674
- Invoice value paid outside agreed terms
- £18,257,805
- Invoices paid in 31–60 days
- 50.0%
- Invoices unpaid due to dispute
- 24.0%
- Maximum contractual payment period
- 61 days
- Supplier-list charging policy
- No
- Supplier-list charges made
- No
Reported terms and dispute process
- Standard payment terms
Air Products standard payment terms globally are Net 45 days date of invoice (d.o.i), unless this cannot be legally applied in the country. Air Products’ policy is to pay suppliers according to the terms on the Purchase Order (PO) provided the invoice is error free and goods receipt is verified. The Air Products recommended Payment Terms for business conducted in Europe are: Standard - Net 45 days – where permissible by law or suppliers Non-standard – determined on a supplier by supplier basis depending on business/supplier requirement
- Dispute resolution process
All invoices are reviewed by accounts payable specialist. In cases where it is clear that invoices are erroneous, they will be returned externally to the vendor/supplier for immediate correction and re-issue. For discrepancies, invoices are held by an accounts payable specialist and referred for further investigation with the relevant procurement/business department . In both instances, the accounts payable specialist/manager will follow up with regular communications internally and externally to investigate the progress in resolving the discrepancies with a view to having the invoice recorded and paid in the shortest time possible.
Earlier payment reports (11 shown)
- 41.0 average days to pay75.0% outside terms
- 48.0 average days to pay58.0% outside terms
- 38.0 average days to pay29.0% outside terms
- 43.0 average days to pay25.0% outside terms
- 44.0 average days to pay20.0% outside terms
- 42.0 average days to pay20.0% outside terms
- 42.0 average days to pay22.0% outside terms
- 42.0 average days to pay20.0% outside terms
- 47.0 average days to pay25.0% outside terms
- 42.0 average days to pay20.0% outside terms
- 42.0 average days to pay27.0% outside terms
This is a company-submitted statutory disclosure, not a credit rating. BritDB preserves the reporting period and links the report only through the Companies House number supplied by the official service. Percentages describe payments made during that period and may change in later reports.
05 Global legal identity
Legal Entity Identifier
AIR PRODUCTS PUBLIC LIMITED COMPANY
LEI 5WO0LPV1PSQW1GK3IM88 · jurisdiction GB
- Legal form
- B6ES
- Entity category
- GENERAL
- Entity created
- 5 July 1909
- Initial LEI registration
- 28 August 2012
- LEI last updated
- 10 April 2026
- Next renewal
- 1 May 2027
- Managing LOU
- 5493001KJTIIGC8Y1R12
- Legal address
- 1000 Hillswood Drive, Chertsey, KT16 0PS, GB
- Headquarters address
- 1000 Hillswood Drive, Chertsey, KT16 0PS, GB
GLEIF Level 2 relationships
IS DIRECTLY CONSOLIDATED BY
From LEI 5WO0LPV1PSQW1GK3IM88 to LEI 5O03ZWOBX88KKBGGCH77
- Related legal entity
- AIR PRODUCTS GROUP LIMITED →
- Initial registration
- 4 December 2023
- Last updated
- 10 April 2025
- Next renewal
- 1 May 2027
- Validation sources
- ENTITY_SUPPLIED_ONLY
- Validation documents
- OTHER_OFFICIAL_DOCUMENTS
- Relationship periods
- Start: 2021-10-01T00:00:00.000Z; End: 2022-09-30T00:00:00.000Z; Type: ACCOUNTING_PERIOD; Start: 2023-06-01T00:00:00.000Z; Type: RELATIONSHIP_PERIOD; Type: DOCUMENT_FILING_PERIOD
- Validation reference
- Not supplied
IS ULTIMATELY CONSOLIDATED BY
From LEI 5WO0LPV1PSQW1GK3IM88 to LEI 7QEON6Y1RL5XR3R1W237
- Initial registration
- 4 December 2023
- Last updated
- 10 April 2025
- Next renewal
- 1 May 2027
- Validation sources
- ENTITY_SUPPLIED_ONLY
- Validation documents
- OTHER_OFFICIAL_DOCUMENTS
- Relationship periods
- Start: 2021-10-01T00:00:00.000Z; End: 2022-09-30T00:00:00.000Z; Type: ACCOUNTING_PERIOD; Start: 2023-06-01T00:00:00.000Z; Type: RELATIONSHIP_PERIOD; Type: DOCUMENT_FILING_PERIOD
- Validation reference
- Not supplied
LEI data provides global legal identity and source-reported relationships, not a credit or regulatory approval. BritDB links Level 1 identities only through GLEIF’s Companies House registration-authority identifier and exact company number; Level 2 parent and fund relationships and reporting exceptions are reproduced as supplied by GLEIF.
06 Supply-chain transparency
Modern slavery statement
- Organisation
- AIR PRODUCTS PUBLIC LIMITED COMPANY
- Group submission
- Yes
- Parent organisation
- AIR PRODUCTS GROUP LIMITED
- Statement period
- 1 October 2024 – 30 September 2025
- Approved
- 9 February 2026
- Sectors
- Other
Organisation structure
Covered in the statement
Policies
Covered in the statement
Risk assessment
Covered in the statement
Due diligence
Covered in the statement
Training
Covered in the statement
Goals and KPIs
Not reported as covered
Full statement information supplied to the registry
- Reported turnover band
- Over £500 million
- Years producing statements
- More than 5 years
- ILO indicators included
- Not answered
- Registry record updated
- 26 March 2026
Earlier linked statements (1)
- AIR PRODUCTS PUBLIC LIMITED COMPANY30 September 2021
A registry entry records what the organisation declared in its statement. It is not an independent audit. Group statements can cover several companies; BritDB preserves each exact source-supplied company-number link and excludes approver names and email addresses.
UK Additional public registers
Schools, childcare, care and HSE records
Air Products Public Limited Company
4 October 2018 · Extractive and utility supply industries
Identity methods differ by source. DfE links use source-supplied company numbers. Ofsted and Scottish care links are unique exact name-and-postcode candidates. HSE links require one unique exact Companies House organisation name. Verify candidate associations independently.
07 Public procurement
Contracts Finder awards
Bulk Medical Gases
YORK AND SCARBOROUGH TEACHING HOSPITALS NHS FOUNDATION TRUST · ocds-b5fd17-12e4b54a-cfeb-4566-8515-a095b6262c21
- Supplier named in award
- AIR PRODUCTS PUBLIC LIMITED COMPANY
- Award value
- £900,000
- Contract period
- 1 November 2025 – 31 October 2027
- Published
- 21 November 2025
- Procedure
- Call-off from a framework agreement
- Main CPV
- 24111500
- Source release ID
- ocds-b5fd17-12e4b54a-cfeb-4566-8515-a095b6262c21-2025-11-21T14:45:07Z
Framework Agreement for the Supply of Medical Gases in Cylinders and Liquid Medical Gases
HealthTrust Europe LLP (HTE) · ocds-b5fd17-5107b1f9-0b13-4194-bc3d-5c178570838c
- Supplier named in award
- Air Products PLC
- Award value
- £300,000,000
- Contract period
- 1 July 2025 – 30 June 2029
- Published
- 10 June 2025
- Procedure
- Open procedure (above threshold)
- Main CPV
- 24100000
- Source release ID
- ocds-b5fd17-5107b1f9-0b13-4194-bc3d-5c178570838c-2025-06-10T13:22:55+01:00
Supply of liquid nitrogen
UK Biobank Ltd · ocds-b5fd17-7f2e50ab-c96c-4f03-b554-d90d8cdc9b92
- Supplier named in award
- Air Products Plc
- Award value
- £911,210
- Contract period
- 12 August 2024 – 12 August 2025
- Published
- 12 August 2024
- Procedure
- Open procedure
- Main CPV
- 24111800
- Source release ID
- ocds-b5fd17-7f2e50ab-c96c-4f03-b554-d90d8cdc9b92-2024-08-12T17:45:15+01:00
Design, Supply, Installation & Commissioning of an On-Site Oxygen Storage and Generation Capability
Glass Futures · ocds-b5fd17-5ff444ba-9d0a-4d96-8b34-1385c4e3eb03
- Supplier named in award
- Air Products
- Award value
- £4,000,000
- Contract period
- 20 May 2024 – 20 May 2027
- Published
- 12 June 2024
- Procedure
- Open procedure
- Main CPV
- 24111900
- Source release ID
- ocds-b5fd17-5ff444ba-9d0a-4d96-8b34-1385c4e3eb03-2024-06-12T17:45:13+01:00
2662 - Supply of Gas Cylinders
CENTRE FOR PROCESS INNOVATION LIMITED · ocds-b5fd17-9f7f93ca-f47f-47a8-aec3-955af55af5a9
- Supplier named in award
- Air Products PLC
- Award value
- £1,000,000
- Contract period
- 15 June 2023 – 14 June 2027
- Published
- 16 June 2023
- Procedure
- Open procedure (above threshold)
- Main CPV
- 24100000
- Source release ID
- ocds-b5fd17-9f7f93ca-f47f-47a8-aec3-955af55af5a9-2023-06-16T09:20:42+01:00
THE SUPPLY OF BULK MEDICAL LIQUID OXYGEN
HULL UNIVERSITY TEACHING HOSPITALS NHS TRUST · ocds-b5fd17-f565b4f5-9ab9-4ec2-bd50-037f24c6c7ac
- Supplier named in award
- AIR PRODUCTS PUBLIC LIMITED COMPANY
- Award value
- £4,257,126
- Contract period
- 11 July 2023 – 10 July 2027
- Published
- 25 May 2023
- Procedure
- Call-off from a framework agreement
- Main CPV
- 24110000
- Source release ID
- ocds-b5fd17-f565b4f5-9ab9-4ec2-bd50-037f24c6c7ac-2023-05-25T11:31:57+01:00
Provision of Liquid Nitrogen
BIRKBECK COLLEGE · ocds-b5fd17-6f43270e-063f-425e-8b99-91367797c653
- Supplier named in award
- AIR PRODUCTS PUBLIC LIMITED COMPANY
- Award value
- £32,376.64
- Contract period
- 1 November 2022 – 31 October 2023
- Published
- 25 November 2022
- Procedure
- Competitive quotation (below threshold)
- Main CPV
- 24111800
- Source release ID
- ocds-b5fd17-6f43270e-063f-425e-8b99-91367797c653-2022-11-25T16:55:49Z
VEAT - Procurement of Helium
Health & Safety Executive · ocds-b5fd17-5fa6a867-53eb-4a06-9228-f32ccd6226f7
- Supplier named in award
- AIR PRODUCTS PUBLIC LIMITED COMPANY
- Award value
- £17,334
- Contract period
- 18 October 2022 – 1 April 2023
- Published
- 6 October 2022
- Procedure
- Single tender action (below threshold)
- Main CPV
- 24111300
- Source release ID
- ocds-b5fd17-5fa6a867-53eb-4a06-9228-f32ccd6226f7-2022-10-06T10:21:33+01:00
Framework for the Ongoing Supply of Liquid Nitrogen and Associated Equipment
CENTRE FOR PROCESS INNOVATION LIMITED · ocds-b5fd17-92a65b16-1656-414e-9e3d-dc5ed51c7a56
- Supplier named in award
- Air Products PLC
- Award value
- £2,000,000
- Contract period
- 22 March 2022 – 20 March 2026
- Published
- 25 March 2022
- Procedure
- Competitive procedure with negotiation (above threshold)
- Main CPV
- 24111800
- Source release ID
- ocds-b5fd17-92a65b16-1656-414e-9e3d-dc5ed51c7a56-2022-03-25T16:02:18Z
Supply of Liquid Nitrogen
UK Biobank Ltd · ocds-b5fd17-13007835-954c-48a1-9366-a0819398aebe
- Supplier named in award
- Air Products Plc
- Award value
- £142,872.58
- Contract period
- 28 June 2021 – 27 June 2022
- Published
- 24 September 2021
- Procedure
- Open procedure
- Main CPV
- 24111800
- Source release ID
- ocds-b5fd17-13007835-954c-48a1-9366-a0819398aebe-2021-09-24T17:45:06+01:00
Supply of Liquid Nitrogen
UK Biobank Ltd · ocds-b5fd17-13007835-954c-48a1-9366-a0819398aebe
- Supplier named in award
- Air Products Plc
- Award value
- £659,545.18
- Contract period
- 28 June 2021 – 27 June 2022
- Published
- 24 September 2021
- Procedure
- Open procedure
- Main CPV
- 24111800
- Source release ID
- ocds-b5fd17-13007835-954c-48a1-9366-a0819398aebe-2021-09-24T17:45:06+01:00
Ongoing Supply of Gas Cylinders
CENTRE FOR PROCESS INNOVATION LIMITED · ocds-b5fd17-6cd72e48-dc84-4976-9832-e9b23535b77c
- Supplier named in award
- AIR PRODUCTS (G B) LTD
- Award value
- £300,000
- Contract period
- 20 March 2020 – 20 March 2024
- Published
- 24 March 2020
- Procedure
- Open procedure (above threshold)
- Main CPV
- 24100000
- Source release ID
- ocds-b5fd17-6cd72e48-dc84-4976-9832-e9b23535b77c-2020-03-24T08:48:09Z
Tender for Liquid Nitrogen
UK Biobank Ltd · ocds-b5fd17-45ad8f68-adc9-11e6-9901-0019b9f3037b
- Supplier named in award
- AIR PRODUCTS (G B) LTD
- Award value
- £935,640
- Contract period
- 24 June 2016 – 24 June 2019
- Published
- 11 May 2018
- Procedure
- Open procedure
- Main CPV
- 24111800
- Source release ID
- ocds-b5fd17-45ad8f68-adc9-11e6-9901-0019b9f3037b-2018-05-11T09:29:13+01:00
The supplier link is exact, but the award remains buyer-published procurement data. BritDB requires the GB-COH identifier supplied in the Contracts Finder OCDS release and does not infer suppliers from similar names.
08 Ownership and control
People with significant control
Air Products Group Limited
- Owns 75% or more of shares
- Country registered
- Uk
- Legal authority
- Uk
- Legal form
- Limited Liability Company
- Place registered
- Companies House
- Registration number
- 3101747
- Notified
- 6 April 2016
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09 Charity register
Charity Commission links
No exact company-number link in this snapshot
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10 Northern Ireland charity register
CCNI exact company links
No unambiguous company-number link found
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11 Sanctions screening
UK Sanctions List
No exact business-registration-number link found
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No exact link is not sanctions clearance. UK restrictions can apply through ownership or control even where an entity is not separately named. Always use the current official list and obtain appropriate advice for a legally significant decision.
12 Public procurement
Find a Tender links
Framework for the Supply of Bulk Gases and Associated Equipment
CENTRE FOR PROCESS INNOVATION LIMITED · updated 9 September 2026
- Tender value
- Not supplied
- Awards
- 1
UVDB Powered by Achilles QUDM for Goods, Works and Services
AFFINITY WATER LIMITED · updated 19 August 2026
- Tender value
- Not supplied
- Awards
- 1
Medical and Industrial Gases Including Cylinders and Bulk Liquid Oxygen
NHS Shared Business Services Limited · updated 19 February 2026
- Tender value
- £70,000,000
- Awards
- 4
Supply of Industrial Gases
NORTHERN GAS NETWORKS LIMITED · updated 15 May 2024
- Tender value
- Not supplied
- Awards
- 3
2662 - Supply of Gas Cylinders
CENTRE FOR PROCESS INNOVATION LIMITED · updated 16 June 2023
- Tender value
- £1,000,000
- Awards
- 1
These links use only the GB-COH identifier supplied in the procurement record. A company may have other public-sector work that is absent, older, below publication thresholds or published without a Companies House identifier.
13 Environmental register
Environment Agency waste registrations
This is a privacy-reduced, exact-company subset. The full official register also includes sole traders and applicants without a matching Companies House number. Check the current Environment Agency register before relying on registration status.
14 Nature of business
Standard Industrial Classification
15 Connected public record
Checks beyond the company register
Charity Commission
0 exact company-number links.
Northern Ireland charities
0 unambiguous company-number links.
Public contracts
5 procurement processes linked by exact GB-COH identifier.
Waste register
1 exact company-number registration.
Corporate notices
The Gazette is not yet connected.
UK Sanctions List
No exact business-registration-number link in this report.
A checked source with no exact link is not a clean bill of health. Unchecked sources remain unknown, while sanctions may also apply through ownership or control of a listed person or entity.
16 Record timeline
Dates in the bulk record
- Confirmation statement
Latest confirmation statement made up to this date
- Accounts
Latest accounts made up to this date
- Incorporation
Company incorporated
17 Provenance
Sources for this profile
Identity, address, status, dates, SIC, previous names and mortgage totals.
Annual employer reports linked by the exact source-supplied Companies House number.
Statutory supplier-payment reports linked by the exact source-supplied Companies House number.
Global legal identities linked through Companies House registration authority RA000585.
Annual statement summaries linked by exact source company number.
Organisation enforcement records linked by one unique exact company name.
Historic awards linked by exact source-supplied GB-COH company identifier.
Current and ceased significant-control records joined by exact company number.
Daily England and Wales extract matched only by the official company registration number.
Daily CCNI export with company links only where the source number resolves unambiguously.
Complete FCDO list checked by exact UK-linked business registration number.
Procurement parties checked only through exact GB-COH identifiers.
Licensed subset linked only by exact Companies House number.
Financial regulation and licences.
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