Ploughing ahead with its €35m investment in an ASU at Siegen in Germany, industrial gas specialist Messer last month awarded building contracts worth €3.4m to companies in the Siegen area of North Rhine-Westphalia.
The huge order volume is in connection with the construction of a new production facility for extracting gases from the atmosphere at the Deutsche Edelstahlwerke site in Siegen-Geisweid. Messer is investing €35m in an air separation plant which is due to start producing oxygen, nitrogen and argon in autumn 2009.
Between July 2008 and May 2009, a team of up to 35 highly skilled personnel from building companies based in the Siegen area will be working hard on the project, from initial excavations right through to the completion of the control room and machine hall.
During the next eleven months, more than 5,500 cubic metres of concrete, 1,200 square metres of brickwork and 570 tonnes of steel will be going into place.
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