Air Liquide is to acquire the world’s biggest oxygen production site located in Secunda, South Africa from integrated energy and chemical company Sasol.
This means the French industrial gases group would operate the 16 air separation units (16) on the site, with an installed capacity of 42,000 tonnes per day of oxygen, in addition to the unit already operates today.
Air Liquide also revealed multi-year plans to modernise these facilities, in an initial South African Rand 8.5bn (€440m) investment, and provide a solution, in coordination with Sasol, that would reduce CO2 emissions arising from the oxygen production by 30% to 40% by 2030.
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