Air Products and Linde Form Anhydrous Hydrogen Chloride Joint Venture
Air Products and Linde Gas North America announced they have formed Hydrochlor, a 50-50 joint venture to supply high-purity anhydrous hydrochloric acid (HCl) to the electronics and other industries.
As part of the agreement, Hydrochlor will build a facility to process and package HCl supplied via pipeline from The Dow Chemical Company. The new facility will be located on Dow’s Freeport, Texas, site. Oversight for Hydrochlor will be governed by a team of managers from each partner company. The facility, scheduled to be commissioned in the second quarter of 2012, is designed to meet current merchant requirements and can be expanded to serve growth in market demand.
Hydrochlor will sell HCl exclusively to the joint venture partners, who will continue to market HCl independently. Until the new facility’s startup, Dow will continue to supply HCl independently to Air Products at its Hometown, Pa., facility and to Linde at its Lovington, New Mexico, location.
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