By Allison Prang

Air Products said its board extended its chief executive's contract through September 2025, three years longer than his previous contract.

The industrial gases company said CEO, President and Chairman Seifi Ghasemi's tenure is extended through September 30, 2025, by the new deal. His old agreement with the company, entered into three years earlier, went through September 2022, Air Products said.

Seifi Ghasemi started in those roles in 2014.

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