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Air Liquide Signs Long-Term Contract with Evraz Highveld
02/07/2012 - Air Liquide has just signed a major long-term contract with Evraz Highveld Steel and Vanadium, the second-largest steel producer in South Africa. Air Liquide will invest in a new ASU as part of the contract.
Air Liquide has just signed a major long-term contract with Evraz Highveld Steel and Vanadium, the second-largest steel producer in South Africa.
As part of the contract, Air Liquide will invest in a new Air Separation Unit (ASU) with a capacity of 770 tonnes of oxygen per day, expected to be commissioned at the end of 2013. In addition to ensuring the supply of oxygen for Evraz Highveld, the new ASU will also produce liquid oxygen, nitrogen, and argon to meet growing demand from South Africa’s industrial merchant market.
The facility will be designed and manufactured by Air Liquide Engineering & Construction teams. It will feature the Group’s latest technologies, which offer high levels of energy efficiency and reliability.
The overall investment amounts to around €40 million.
This investment follows investments in a new ASU in KwaZulu-Natal and in Africa’s largest argon production unit, both commissioned in 2011.
“We are delighted to partner with Air Liquide for the supply of oxygen and other gases, which are critical to our processes,” commented Mike Garcia, CEO of Evraz Highveld Steel and Vanadium. “Air Liquide brings worldwide experience and we are convinced it will deliver the reliability we require.”
Air Liquide has been an industrial partner of South Africa — a country with vast natural resources and a growing infrastructure — for more than 50 years.
