Twelve months ago, we sat down with Nippon Gases Europe, a leader in the production and distribution of carbon dioxide (CO2) in Europe, to discuss the region’s CO2 market.
It was a period of relative calm for this often fragile supply chain, with Jose Ramon Calvo – Marketing Director Europe at Nippon Gases – affirming, “…under normal circumstances we do have a stable CO2 supply chain in Europe with sufficient capacity to meet the demand.”
The key element in that statement was Calvo’s cautionary words ‘under normal circumstances’. Several months later, and we would see anything but normal circumstances. Headlines erupted in early September 2021 as supply chain shortages broke out in the UK and parts of Europe, against the backdrop of soaring natural gas prices.
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