Article: Praxair Shareholders Elect Alves to Board.

DANBURY, Conn. -- At the annual meeting of Praxair, Inc. (NYSE:PX) shareholders today, Jose Paulo de Oliveira Alves, former chief executive officer of Companhia Siderurgica Nacional (CSN LLC) USA, was elected to the board. CSN, based in Brazil, is a leading steel producer, with 2004 revenues of $4.6 billion.

With this election, Praxair's board has 10 members, nine of them independent.

At CSN LLC USA, Alves led development of new business opportunities in the U.S. market, and directed the integration of CSN LLC's acquisition of the assets of Heartland Steel of Indiana in 2001. Simultaneously, as executive officer of the parent company in Brazil, he ...

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