The world’s largest privately owned industrial gas company, The Messer Group, has successfully brought a new air separation unit (ASU) on-stream in China’s Hunan Province.
Situated in the southern city of Hengyang, the facility produces a total capacity of 22,000 Nm3 of O2 and 44,000 Nm3 of N2 each hour – the equivalent to the volume of around six million balloons.
Parallel to the commissioning of this new plant, Messer has secured a contract to supply the produced O2 and N2 to copper cathode manufacturer Minmentals Copper Co., Ltd. for the next 15 years.
The investment in Hengyang will strengthen our leading position in Hunan province
The Tier One player has been supplying Minmetals with gaseous O2 and N2 by pipeline for the past month, after the Chinese copper company opened a new facility that produces around 100,000 tonnes of copper cathodes each year, also in Hengyang.
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