Air Liquide is pleased to announce a major commercial success in the growing Brazilian steel market.
An international partnership consisting of Air Liquide Brazil; White Martins, a wholly owned subsidiary of Praxair Inc; and ThyssenKrupp MinEnergy, a wholly owned subsidiary of the ThyssenKrupp group, has signed a twenty-year agreement to supply industrial gases.
The companies will supply ThyssenKrupp CSA Companhia Siderúgica, a joint venture between the German ThyssenKrupp Steel AG and Companhia Vale do Rio Doce of Brazil.
ThyssenKrupp CSA plans to construct a new integrated steel mill 60 kms south of Rio de Janeiro, which will begin operations in early 2009. It is expected to produce five million tonnes of steel slabs each year.
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