Metallic carbides and Abelló build a new unit of separation of air in Sagunto

Oxygen of Sagunto, a Joint Venture (50/50) between the companies Metallic Carbides, group Air Products, and Abelló Linde, member of the Group Linde, will invest more than 40 million euros in a new Unit of Separation of Air (ASU), located in Sagunto (Valencia).

The past 4 November, directors of both companies have gathered with Antonio Cejalvo, General Director of Energy of the Conselleria of Economy, Industry and Trade of the Valencian Community and Alfredo Castelló, mayor of Sagunto, as well as with other personalities of the place, to celebrate officially the act of placing of first stone of the new installations, an act that shows the important investment carried out in the region.

The Division Linde Engineering is the attendant to build the new plant, that will substitute to the installations that exist at present in this same place, and that will go in in operation at the beginning of 2013. Using the technologies and the most advanced processes, this Unit of Separation of Air will increase considerably his energetic efficiency and will produce roughly 400 tonnes by day of oxygen, nitrogen and argon. This figure supposes triplicar the current volumes of production.