Air Liquide to Build Large ASU in China to Supply Chemical Firm

Air Liquide says it has signed a long-term gas supply contract with Tongmei Guangfa Chemical Industry. Air Liquide will invest about €60 million ($80 million) in a large air separation unit (ASU) with production capacity of 2,000 m.t./day of oxygen to supply oxygen and nitrogen to Tongmei Guangfa Chemical’s methanol production project at Datong, China, under the terms of the deal. Production is scheduled to begin in July 2012, Air Liquide says. During the first phase of the Tongmei Guangfa Chemical’s project, 600,000 m.t./year of methanol will be...

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