African Oxygen Ltd - AFX- Profile

African Oxygen Ltd(AFROX). The Group's principal activity manufacturing and marketing gases, welding, safety and related products and services. The Group's operations are carried out through its Industrial Products and Merchant divisions. Industrial Products business comprises cylinder and liquid fabrication gases, special, hospitality and medical gases, Handigas and welding products. This business also includes the industrial business of local and foreign subsidiaries. Merchant and Tonnage business operates dedicated gas plants that are situated on or adjacent to customer sites, or supplied by long distance gas pipelines. It also supplies bulk gases by road tanker to the merchant market, to enhance customer processes and installs and manages small on-site packaged gas producing plants. Industrial Products accounted for 88% of fiscal 2006 revenues and Merchant and Tonnage, 12%