New investments of Air Liquide in Germany and Italy for major steel customers
Air Liquide builds a world scale new Air Separation Unit (ASU) of 2,300 tonnes of oxygen per day at Oberhausen (Germany) and will be commissioned in 2010. It will be connected to Air Liquide's 500 km pipeline network in Germany which forms the backbone for the supply of oxygen and nitrogen to numerous large customers in the iron and steel, chemical and petrochemical industries in the Rhine-Ruhr area. This unit will in particular be supplying the increasing needs of Hüttenwerke Krupp Mannesmann GmbH and DK Recycling und Roheisen GmbH with whom Air Liquide has signed new long term contracts.
Air Liquide will also build a new ASU on its 650 km pipeline network in the north of Italy in order to supply the new installation of Arvedi Group in Cremona with whom Air Liquide has entered into a new long term agreement. The new unit is scheduled to be commissioned by end of 2009.
Guy Salzgeber, member of Air Liquide's Executive Committee, Vice-President for European Operations, declared: "With these new investments, Air Liquide is increasing its global production capacity of oxygen in Europe which represents a unique capability for customers especially in the steel industry. These two new projects are a further illustration of the Group's acceleration of its growth."
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