In a week full of quarterly financials and the broader backdrop of a year so clearly dominated by Covid-19, it would have been easy to miss the significance of two key stories recently concerning the basic building blocks of the industrial gases industry.
That’s exactly what was served up last week: two stories with air gases and ASUs at their core, both from Air Liquide, and both momentous in their own right.
On the face of it, the big story is that Air Liquide is to acquire the world’s biggest oxygen production site located in Secunda, South Africa from integrated energy and chemical company Sasol.
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