Yara contracts Uhde for Sluiskil urea upgrade

27-Jun-2008 - Yara Sluiskil BV has contracted Uhde GmbH to design and build a new world-scale urea plant to replace old assets at its Sluiskil production site in the Netherlands. Yara will invest in total approximately EUR 400 million on the site, to produce 1.3 million tons per year from 2011. "This ...

Praxair Announces Price Increases Effective July 1, 2008

19-Jun-2008 - Praxair, Inc. is notifying industrial gas customers in the United States of the following price and monthly fee increases, effective July 1, 2008, or as contracts permit: - 10% to 20% for nitrogen, oxygen, argon, hydrogen, and carbon dioxide - 15% to 30% for helium - Up to 15% for monthly ...

New investments of Air Liquide in Germany and Italy for major steel customers

09-Jun-2008 - Air Liquide builds a world scale new Air Separation Unit (ASU) of 2,300 tonnes of oxygen per day at Oberhausen (Germany) and will be commissioned in 2010. It will be connected to Air Liquide's 500 km pipeline network in Germany which forms the backbone for the supply of oxygen and nitrogen to ...

MOX announces over RM350m investments

04-Jun-2008 - Malaysia's industrial gas company MOX, now a member of global gases and engineering company The Linde Group, brought on stream in the last 6 months two new plants with an investment of approximately RM100 million. The two plants - the first in Shah Alam was commissioned at the end of 2007, and ...

Air Liquide invests EUR110 million in new production capacities in Europe

02-Jun-2008 - In Western Europe, the industrial gases market continues to grow, energised by the manufacture of capital and infrastructure goods, by automobiles, the food industry and the photovoltaic market. In this context of continuous growth in demand for industrial merchant gases, Air Liquide will invest ...

Super-sensitive spray-on explosive detector

27-May-2008 - US scientists have designed a new spray-on explosive detector sensitive enough to detect just a billionth of a gram of explosive. After treatment the explosive glows blue under UV light, making it perfect for use in the field. William Trogler and his team at the University of California, San ...

Linde and Air Products expand production at Bethlehem, PA, JV

23-May-2008 - East Coast Oxygen, a 50/50 production joint venture between Linde North America and Air Products, has expanded the production capacity of its facility in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. The new liquefaction unit, which was recently commissioned, boosts production capacity by almost 600 tons a day and ...

Air Products to Build New ASU and Liquefier at Nanticoke in Canada

22-May-2008 - Air Products announced the signing of a new long-term supply contract between its subsidiary, Air Products Canada, Ltd., and U. S. 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 ...

BASF Antwerp: New nitric acid plant comes on stream

16-May-2008 - BASF has started operating a new plant for the production of nitric acid at Antwerp Verbund site. The plant's output will be used mainly to manufacture polyurethane. The facility has a production capacity of 500,000 metric tons per year and is one of the world's largest, according to the ...

The Linde Group and ADNOC to build two large-scale air separation units in Abu Dhabi

Total investment costs around USD 800 million

13-May-2008 - The Linde Group and The Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC) have decided to construct two large air separation units (ASU) through their joint venture Elixier in Abu Dhabi (United Arab Emirates). Total investment costs amount to approximately USD 800 million. Starting at the end of 2010, the ...