Air Products has announced the signing of a new long-term supply contract between its subsidiary Air Products Canada Ltd. and US Steel Canada, Inc, in Nanticoke, Ontario, Canada.
In conjunction with this new agreement, Air Products will build a new air separation unit (ASU) with a high efficiency liquefier facility. The new facility, to be on-stream in the fourth quarter of 2009, marks an expansion of Air Products’ oxygen and nitrogen supply to the steel mill and increased merchant liquid argon capacity, as well as a more efficient production of merchant liquid oxygen and nitrogen for the company’s operation at its Nanticoke facility.
“We have been supplying the Lake Erie facility’s tonnage industrial gas requirements with our original Nanticoke air separation plant since 1980. This latest investment by Air Products keeps pace with Lake Erie’s increased demand for industrial gases and represents another milestone in our long-term relationship,” explained Alex Masetti, Vice President of Tonnage Gases North America for Air Products.
“At the same time, the new liquefier will increase our supply capacity and improve our market position in the Eastern Canada and Northeastern US markets for liquid products,” added Masetti.
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