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Air Products Inaugurates in Russia a new Unit of Separation of gases

10/12/2012

10 December 2012

The group Air Products, to the that belongs Metallic Carbides, has inaugurated in Russia a new Unit of Separation of Air (ASU), designed to answer to the needs of industrial gases of the centres of production that the petrochemical company Sibur has in the region of Rostov. The company, world-wide referent in the sector of gases, has chosen this zone to situate the new plant like part of his strategy of expansion in regions in growth.

Air Products Has signed an agreement with Sibur, by means of which will commission of the gestión and maintenance of the new plant, designed to give answer to the needs of gases compressesed of the main centres of production of the zone. The recently inaugurated ASU has capacity to produce until 166,4 million m3 to the year. The initiative materialises the will of Air Products to offer to his customers gases compressesed and gases liquefied of big quality by means of the use of technologies and plants of production of confidence.

"For us it is fundamental to work closely with our customers to be able to offer them products and services of quality designed especially for them. The construction of installations to produce gas in situ, like this plant, allows us expand our capacity to answer to the demands of the companies of the zone, improving his energetic efficiency and productivity at the same time” affirms Rob Mills, general director of Air Products in Russia and in the Community of Independent States (CEI).

The group Air Products has signed also an agreement to build in the region a licuefactor of oxygen, nitrogen and argon with capacity to produce 200 tonnes to the day, that will go in in operation at the beginning of 2014 and that will suppose a total investment of more than 25 million euros.

The Group has Units of Separation of the Air all over the world, between which includes the ASU situated in Sagunto, fruit of the joint venture between Metallic Carbides, of the group Air Products, and Abelló Linde. The new plant will begin to work at the beginning of 2013 and will produce roughly 400 tonnes by day of oxygen, nitrogen and argon.