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Every Day Around the World, We Are Making Our World More Productive

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About Afrox

African Oxygen (Pty) Limited is sub-Saharan Africa’s market leader in gases and welding products.

Afrox was founded in 1927, and has prospered by constantly meeting the needs of customers and developing solutions that add value to customers’ applications.
Our Parent company, Linde company, is a global gases, engineering, and technology company.
Afrox operates in South Africa and in nine other African countries and manages operations in five more countries on behalf of the Linde company

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Our Company 

Every day around the world, our people are inspired by our mission of making our world more productive. As a leading global industrial gases and engineering company, we deliver high-quality solutions, technologies and services which are making our customers more successful and helping to sustain, decarbonize and protect our planet. 
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Making Energy Clean 

We are actively contributing to the widespread adoption of clean energy, such as hydrogen and its derivatives, and significantly cutting emissions through carbon capture, utilization and storage technologies. We are committed to making our world more productive, sustainably through our operations and engineering expertise, established infrastructure and strong investment in decarbonization projects and R&D.
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Community Engagement 

Community is a corporate value at Linde.  Connecting with the communities where we live and work and fostering resilience are a key priorities for us. Our global giving and community engagement efforts frame a wide variety of impactful projects in each of our businesses across key focus areas.  Through efforts that include charitable contributions, volunteering, and strategic investments, our people live our mission of making our world more productive every day. 
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Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Linde

With operations in more than 80 countries -- diversity isn't something that Linde does, it's simply who we are:

  • - Linde serves a diverse range of customers. Our engineering, gases and application technologies are essential to businesses of every type and size, as well as individuals all over the world.
  • - Our people are diverse. Our employees around the globe each bring their diverse backgrounds, skills and experiences and help foster a collaborative, innovative and performance-driven workplace that helps achieve our mission of making our world more productive.
  • - At Linde, inclusion is a core value. That means we strive to provide an environment where individuals of all backgrounds and experiences feel comfortable bringing their ideas to the table and are given the opportunity to be heard and to contribute.

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Guided by Integrity 

Integrity is one of our core values. It is at the heart of everything we do and say at Linde. Ethical, respectful, fair, and compliant behaviors build transparency and trust, creating a solid basis for growth and prosperity to the benefit of our employees, customers, suppliers, markets and communities.
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Building a Robust Supply Chain

We value the role our suppliers and contractors play in our ability to deliver on the promises to our customers and to the communities is which we operate. We choose our suppliers carefully based on merit as well as alignment with our values, with Linde’s Supplier Code of Conduct and Code of Business Integrity. We continue to foster diversity and local sourcing. Further, we actively invest in our supplier relationships.
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Zero Today  

Zero Today means we are driving toward zero incidents and zero injuries today and every day.  The Values, Commitments and Safety Principles in our Health, Safety and Environment (HSE) Policy are the foundation for Zero Today at Linde, and our core value of Safety keeps us focused every day on what matters most: the well-being of our people, the environment and the communities in which we operate.
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Sustainability in Focus

At Linde, we are actively engaged in efforts to reduce our own footprint as part of our commitment to protect our planet for the long term.  At the same time, we are helping our customers to improve their environmental performance. We deliver on our commitment to sustainability through a broad range of concrete measures focused around four key priority factors, which are:

  • - Climate Change
  • - Safety, Health and Environment
  • - People and Community
  • - Integrity and Compliance 

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Why Linde

Linde is a leading global industrial gases and engineering company with 2023 sales of $33 billion. We live our mission of making our world more productive every day by providing high-quality solutions, technologies and services which are making our customers more successful and helping to sustain, decarbonize and protect our planet. Our industrial gases and technologies are used in countless applications including production of clean hydrogen critical for the energy transition, life-saving medical oxygen and high-purity & specialty gases for electronics, among others. For over 50 years, Linde has been a global leader in hydrogen and is leveraging its engineering capabilities, along with a significant asset base and expertise, to make cleaner energy a reality worldwide. Linde has an exceptional team with a business owner mentality delivering best-in-class financial performance with unwavering capital discipline. 
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Afrox a Linde Company

Our Expertise Proven expertise plus innovative gases, plant engineering and advanced material technologies to make our world more productive and protect our planet. Learn more..
Making a Difference Linde employees strive to live our vision of “best performing” in everything we do. Many respected third-party stakeholders have recognized Linde’s practices and governance, contributions to communities, innovative solutions and sustainability performance. Learn more..
Corporate Governance Responsible corporate governance is a key prerequisite for our business success. This means ensuring compliance with the law, rules and regulations and voluntary commitments. Learn more..
What We Value Our values are firmly embedded in our DNA. We live these values every day so we can achieve our goals in an impactful, responsible way. Learn more..
How We Lead We always strive to achieve our goals ethically and to the highest standards of integrity and governance. We invite you to learn more about Linde’s experienced leaders and how they govern our company. Learn more..
A Supply Chain Aligned with Our Values Our suppliers and contractors play a vital role in our ability to work efficiently and deliver on our promises to our customers. We are committed to doing business with integrity, selecting suppliers based on merit, alignment with our values including conformance with our Supplier Code of Conduct and Code of Business Integrity. Learn more..
#LindeIsEverywhere Our gases, technologies and applications likely impact your life every day, whether you live in a bustling metropolis or a remote town. Learn more..