Activist investor Mantle Ridge has secured enough support from Air Products and Chemicals investors to win several seats on the industrial gases company's board of directors, two people familiar with the matter said on Wednesday.

Mantle Ridge has been pushing for changes at Air Products, including the replacement of Seifi Ghasemi as chairman and CEO and improvements to the company’s strategy and capital allocation.

Based on preliminary results released Thursday, Air Products announced the company’s new board of directors which, for the first time in more than a decade, does not include Chair and CEO