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Summary

The Report provides information about activities & initiatives within the Engineering and Gist Divisions & throughout all nine Regional Business Units (RBUs) of the Gases Division.

Report Highlights

The Linde Group has published its latest comprehensive Corporate Responsibility Report. It can be viewed and downloaded at www.linde.com/sustainability. Hard copies can be ordered by sending an e-mail to corporate.responsibility@linde.com.

Linde is active in over 70 countries across all continents. Its position as a leading industrial gases and engineering company has many different facets. Equally multifaceted is the nature of Linde’s responsible relationships with the company’s stakeholders – employees, customers, business partners and shareholders – and with local communities.

The purpose of the Corporate Responsibility (CR) Report is to record, structure and prioritize the key issues around the five dimensions Linde has defined:

Capital Markets
Ethics and Compliance
Corporate Citizenship
Human Resources
SHEQ (Safety, Health, Environment, Quality).

The CR Report covers all consolidated companies in which Linde has at least a 50 percent stake. It provides information about activities and initiatives within the Engineering and Gist Divisions and throughout all nine Regional Business Units (RBUs) of the Gases Division. This also includes the Global Business Units and Business Areas.

The report follows current, internationally recognised recommendations by the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI). Linde has been particularly keen to address all queries, comments and improvement suggestions the company’s stakeholders made in the 2006 Corporate Responsibility online survey.

The Linde Group is a world-leading gases and engineering company with around 50,000 employees working in more than 70 countries worldwide. Following the acquisition of The BOC Group plc, the company has sales of around 12 billion euro per annum. The strategy of The Linde Group is geared towards earnings-based growth and focuses on the expansion of its international business with forward-looking products and services.