Air Liquide to Build ASU in China

Air Liquide says it has signed a long-term gas supply contract with Shaanxi Yulin Natural Gas Chemical Industry (Yutianhua), a natural gas based methanol company in China. Air Liquide says it will invest about €60 million ($89 million) in a new air separation unit (ASU) at Yulin, Shaanxi province, China, with a production capacity of 2,700 m.t./day of oxygen, to supply oxygen and nitrogen to Yutianhua, under the terms of the agreement. Yutianhua launched a 600,000-m.t./year methanol coal-based project in 2008, and Yutianhua’s unit for the first phase...

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