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Air Products & Chemicals Inc. Chief Executive.John Jones speaks to a reporter during an interview June 18, 2004 in his Allentown, Pennsylvania, office. Jones aims to improve return on capital by $100 million a year for the next four years by making fuller use of assets and increasing productivity,.analysts say. He shut a methanol plant in Florida last year and.will be opening a plant in Trinidad, where natural gas is.relatively inexpensive. Air Products uses as much as 15 million.gallons of methanol a quarter for making methylamines, a.chemical intermediate. Also to be discussed: maintaining market.share in fast growing refinery gases business. (Photo by William Thomas Cain/BLOOMBERG NEWS)