Lea Codispot ’24 pitched Air Products and Chemicals, Inc. (NYSE:APD) on November 6, 2023. Air Products provides essential industrial gasses, related equipment, and applications expertise to customers in a wide range of industries, including refining, chemicals, metals, electronics, manufacturing, and food. The company also develops, engineers, builds, owns, and operates some of the world’s largest industrial gas and carbon-capture projects, supplying clean hydrogen for global transportation, industrial markets, and the broader energy transition. Lea’s investment thesis focused on Air Product’s long-term growth strategy that is tied to industry leading innovation in sustainable and low-carbon practices. The class voted to buy approximately $20,000 of APD, funded by the sale of Scott’s Miracle-Gro.