Air Liquide to supply to a major aluminium manufacturer in Australia
Comalco is in the process of building Stage 1 of an AUD$1.4 billion (815MEUR) alumina refinery at Gladstone in Queensland with a capacity of 1.4 million tonnes pa. Comalco needs large quantities of oxygen and nitrogen for application in its refinery processes for the removal of organic compounds from the slurry and to improve product quality and productivity. Air Liquide will install a new air separation unit of 70 tonnes/day capacity to meet Comalco's needs as well as service other industrial customers in Central Queensland. This project is of great strategic importance to Air Liquide in Australia, as it now establishes its own air gas production source in Queensland.
This builds on the strong relationship which Air Liquide developed with another Rio Tinto subsidiary, HIsmelt, and the construction of a new 900 tonnes/day air separation unit at Kwinana in Western Australia due for commissioning in October later this year.
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