Linde pushes ahead with expansion of Eastern European gas business
Recently, the Czech Republic saw another Linde air separation plant go into operation at the chemicals company Kaucuk, a.s. in Kralupy, near Prague. Kaucuk, a.s. belongs to Unipetrol, the largest chemicals group in the Czech Republic, and manufactures plastics and synthetic rubber. Oxygen generated by the air separation plant will used to produce styrene, while nitrogen will be piped to the neighboring Ceska rafinérská, a.s., refinery. The Czech gas market will also be supplied with 200 tons of liquid oxygen and nitrogen per day.
The third air separation plant is currently being installed by Linde Engineering at Gaz Romania S.R.L. in the Romanian town of Ramnicu Valcea, approx. 180 km north-west of Bucharest. Based on a long-term supply agreement, the plant will pipe oxygen and nitrogen to the chemicals firm Oltchim SA, as of 2005. These gases are needed to produce VCM (vinyl chloride monomer), the parent compound of PVC. The Romanian gas market will also be supplied with 200 tons of liquified gases per day. This plant is the first modern air separation and gas liquefaction installation to be built since Romania became a parliamentary republic in 1990.
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