Linde Gas North America 401(k) and pension plans

Linde Gas North America LLC, Danbury, CT. EIN 61-1509960. Annual reports 2009–2020. Also filed as Linde North America, Inc.; Spectra Gases, Inc; Linde North America Inc.; Linde Gas North America, LLC.

Linde Gas North America LLC has no active retirement plan on file. Its last annual report was for 2020. Its Linde Savings and Investment Plan was merged into Messer Retirement Savings Plan in 2020.

Active plans: 0
Plans on file: 4
Industry: Manufacturing

All 4 plans

Active plans first

Linde Savings and Investment Plan

401(k)Merged

Merged. In 2020 its assets moved to the Messer Retirement Savings Plan, sponsored by Messer North America Inc (EIN 20-1043281, plan 070). Accounts moved with them, so that plan is the one to contact.

Plan number: 026Employer EIN 61-1509960
Participants (2019): 3,092
Net assets (2019): $320 million
Recordkeeper: EmpowerEarlier: J.P. Morgan (2009–2013)
Plan administrator: Linde Gas North America LLC
10 Riverview Drive
Danbury, CT 06810
(908) 464-8100As filed for 2020
In effect since: June 1, 1979

Plans merged into this one: Spectra Gases, Inc 401(k) Profit Sharing Plan (2013).

Earlier sponsor: Linde North America, Inc. (2009–2017).

Year by year, 2009 to 2020

Plan year	Participants	Net assets	Recordkeeper
2020	0	$0	Empower
2019	3,092	$320 million	Empower
2018	5,181	$498 million	Empower
2017	5,396	$549 million	not listed
2016	5,912	$511 million	Empower
2015	6,055	$485 million	Empower
2014	5,832	$507 million	Empower
2013	5,797	$499 million	J.P. Morgan
2012	5,780	$428 million	J.P. Morgan
2011	5,816	$389 million	J.P. Morgan
2010	5,799	$404 million	J.P. Morgan
2009	6,088	$370 million	J.P. Morgan

Linde Gas Retirement Plan

Cash balance pension, frozenMerged

Merged. In 2018 its assets moved to the The Linde Pension Plan, sponsored by Linde Gas North America LLC (EIN 20-1043281, plan 001). Accounts moved with them, so that plan is the one to contact.

Plan number: 008Employer EIN 61-1509960
Participants (2017): 212
Net assets (2017): $5.9 million
Plan administrator: Linde Gas North America LLC
200 Somerset Corporate Boulevard, Suite 7000
Bridgewater, NJ 08807
(908) 464-8100As filed for 2018
In effect since: January 19, 1999

Year by year, 2009 to 2018

Plan year	Participants	Net assets	Recordkeeper
2018	0	$0	not listed
2017	212	$5.9 million	not listed
2016	225	$5.2 million	not listed
2015	268	$6.7 million	not listed
2014	300	$8.5 million	not listed
2013	70	$7.4 million	not listed
2012	72	$6.7 million	not listed
2011	79	$7.4 million	not listed
2010	80	$7.5 million	not listed
2009	81	$6.6 million	not listed

The Linde Pension Plan

Cash balance pensionMerged

Merged. In 2018 its assets moved to the The Praxair Pension Plan, sponsored by Linde Inc. (EIN 06-1249050, plan 335). Accounts moved with them, so that plan is the one to contact.

Plan number: 030Employer EIN 61-1509960
Participants (2017): 6,340
Net assets (2017): $505 million
Last listed administrator: J.P. Morgan2009
Plan administrator: Linde Gas North America LLC
10 Riverview Drive
Danbury, CT 06810
(908) 665-6940As filed for 2018
In effect since: May 1, 1967

Plans merged into this one: Linde Gas Retirement Plan (2018).

Earlier sponsor: Linde North America, Inc. (2009–2017).

Year by year, 2009 to 2018

Plan year	Participants	Net assets	Recordkeeper
2018	0	$0	not listed
2017	6,340	$505 million	not listed
2016	9,517	$610 million	not listed
2015	9,561	$601 million	not listed
2014	9,625	$661 million	not listed
2013	9,809	$690 million	not listed
2012	10,140	$678 million	not listed
2011	10,928	$661 million	not listed
2010	11,120	$689 million	not listed
2009	11,228	$651 million	J.P. Morgan

Spectra Gases, Inc 401(k) Profit Sharing Plan

401(k)Merged

Merged. In 2013 its assets moved to the Linde Savings and Investment Plan, sponsored by Linde Gas North America LLC (EIN 20-1043281, plan 026). Accounts moved with them, so that plan is the one to contact.

Plan number: 020Employer EIN 61-1509960
Participants (2012): 193
Net assets (2012): $9.7 million
Recordkeeper: Ascensus2009–2013
Plan administrator: Linde Gas North America, LLC
Linde 575 Mountain Avenue
Murray Hill, NJ 07974
(908) 771-1716As filed for 2013
In effect since: January 1, 1989

Earlier sponsors: Spectra Gases, Inc (2009–2010); Linde North America Inc. (2011).

Year by year, 2009 to 2013

Plan year	Participants	Net assets	Recordkeeper
2013	0	$0	Ascensus
2012	193	$9.7 million	Ascensus
2011	217	$9.9 million	Ascensus
2010	242	$10.4 million	Ascensus
2009	239	$11.1 million	Ascensus

If you had money in one of these plans

If your plan was merged, your account moved with it. Follow the link on the plan to the plan it went into, and contact that one.
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What these numbers are

They come from the Form 5500 annual reports each plan files with the Department of Labor, as the plan filed them. A plan year is usually a calendar year.
Participants counts everyone in the plan at year end: current employees, former employees who still have a balance or a pension coming, and retirees or beneficiaries being paid.
The recordkeeper is the service provider whose Schedule C entry says it keeps the plan's records. Small plans do not file Schedule C, so some plans show none.
We cannot see anyone's account. Only the plan or its recordkeeper can tell you your balance.

Sources: U.S. Department of Labor, Form 5500 datasets and PBGC trusteed plans. How we read them.