Linde PLC (LIN) company profile

Linde plc is an industrial gas and engineering company that supplies atmospheric gases such as oxygen, nitrogen, and argon, alongside process gases including hydrogen, helium, carbon dioxide, and specialty gases. The company distributes these gases through on-site pipelines, merchant bulk liquid shipments, and packaged cylinders. Additionally, its engineering division designs and constructs processing facilities, including air separation, hydrogen, synthesis gas, and natural gas plants. Linde caters to a wide spectrum of customer markets, serving the healthcare, chemicals and energy, manufacturing, food and beverage, electronics, and metals and mining industries.

Formed under Irish law, Linde maintains its principal corporate offices in the United States and the United Kingdom. As a global enterprise, the company conducts business across more than 80 countries, operating subsidiaries throughout Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Asia, the South Pacific, and the Americas. It also supports research and development centers in Germany, the United States, and China, while employing a global workforce of over 65,000 individuals.

Summary of the business section of Linde's latest annual report, written by StockData.

“Actually paid” adjusts reported pay for changes in the value of equity awards. Shareholder return assumes $100 invested at the start of the measurement period, as disclosed by the company.

Stock and option awards are grant-date fair values, not realized pay. “Other” includes pension value changes and all other compensation. Source proxy statement.

“As of December 31, 2025, Linde had 65,177 employees worldwide comprised of approximately 28 percent women and 72 percent men.”