Air Products and Chemicals (APD) 10-K 2017 FY Annual report

Exhibit 24

POWER OF ATTORNEY

KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, that each person whose signature appears below constitutes and appoints SEIFI GHASEMI, M. SCOTT CROCCO, SEAN D. MAJOR, and MARY T. AFFLERBACH, and each of them acting severally, his/her true and lawful attorney-in-fact and agent, with full power of substitution and resubstitution, for him/her and in his/her name, place and stead, in any and all capacities, to sign the Form 10-K Annual Report for the fiscal year ended 30 September 2017 and all amendments thereto and to file the same, with all exhibits thereto and other documents in connection therewith, with the Securities and Exchange Commission, granting unto said attorney-in-fact and agent full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing requisite and necessary to be done in and about the premises, as fully to all intents and purposes as he/she might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all that said attorney-in-fact and agent, or substitute or substitutes, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities and Exchange Act of 1934, this Power of Attorney has been signed below by the following persons in the capacities and on the dates indicated.

Signature	Title	Date
/s/ Susan K. Carter	Director	14 November 2017
Susan K. Carter
/s/ Charles I. Cogut	Director	14 November 2017
Charles I. Cogut
/s/ Chad C. Deaton	Director	14 November 2017
Chad C. Deaton
/s/ Seifi Ghasemi	Director and Chairman of the Board, President and Chief Executive Officer (Principal Executive Officer)	14 November 2017
Seifi Ghasemi
/s/ David H. Y. Ho	Director	14 November 2017
David H. Y. Ho
/s/ Margaret G. McGlynn	Director	14 November 2017
Margaret G. McGlynn
/s/ Edward L. Monser	Director	14 November 2017
Edward l. Monser
/s/ Matthew H. Paull	Director	14 November 2017
Matthew H. Paull