Air Liquide has just signed a long-term contract to provide Bayer MaterialScience with large quantities of hydrogen and carbon monoxide.
To meet this customer’ s needs, Air Liquide will invest around €100m in a hydrogen and carbon monoxide production unit based at the Chempark Dormagen site, one of the largest chemical parks in Europe, located near Cologne in North Rhine-Westphalia.
This state-of-the-art unit will be designed and built on the customer’s site by Air Liquide Global E and C Solutions teams and is scheduled for commissioning in 2014.
These gases will be used for the manufacture of polymers, which are needed to produce the polyurethanes used to manufacture high-resilience foam seating, durable elastomeric wheels, high performance adhesives etc.
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