Airgas, Inc. (NYSE: ARG), Radnor, PA, announced that Ted R. Schulte has been named president – Airgas Refrigerants, and Martin Wehner has been named president – Airgas Specialty Products.
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Airgas Refrigerants is a full-service refrigerant gases supply and reclamation company with 100 employees nationwide. Airgas Specialty Products is a supplier of industrial ammonia and diesel exhaust fluid with more than 200 employees across the country.
Schulte joined Airgas in 1997 as president of Airgas Carbonic, before becoming vice president of Airgas gas operations in 1998. He became senior vice president in 2000 and division president in 2003. Prior to joining Airgas, Schulte served as senior vice president of Energetic Solutions, the U.S. subsidiary of ICI Explosives, and vice president of industrial gas sales of Arcadian Corp.
Wehner, who has served as vice president of sales for Airgas Specialty Products since joining Airgas in 2005, has more than 20 years of experience in the ammonia industry and has held a variety of positions in sales, operations and technical service. He began his career as a process engineer with U.S. Steel in 1981 and moved to U.S. Steel's agri-chemical division in 1982.
