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Linde to Construct Air Separation Unit at Russian Steel Plant

12/30/2009 - Linde has closed a long-term agreement with steel company ZAO Kaluga Research and Production Electrometallurgical Plant (KNPEMZ) to supply the company with industrial gases at its production site in Vorsino, which is 80 km southwest of Moscow.

Linde has closed a long-term agreement with the steel company ZAO Kaluga Research and Production Electrometallurgical Plant (KNPEMZ) to supply the company with industrial gases at its production site in Vorsino, which is 80 km southwest of Moscow.
 
Linde will construct an on-site air separation unit (ASU) with an investment volume of EUR 37 million for this project. The new ASU will have a production capacity of 9000 Nm3/h of gaseous oxygen and additional capacities for the production of liquefied gases to supply the merchant market, particularly in central Russia.
 
Linde estimates that the on-site facility will be supplying KNPEMZ with gaseous oxygen plus nitrogen and argon for its steel mill in Vorsino by mid 2011. KNPEMZ belongs to Novolipetsk Steel (NLMK), one of the largest steel manufacturers worldwide.
 
The Linde Group has also won contracts to build two olefin plants for two chemical customers in Western Siberia.
 
"Gazprom, Sibur, and NLMK represent the best the Russian Federation can offer today in the energy, petrochemical, and steel market," said Dr. Aldo Belloni, Member of the Executive Board of Linde AG. "We are honored and pleased to be their partner for these three prestigious projects, both as a turnkey engineering contractor and as the leading gas company in Russia."
 
The Linde Group is a leading gases and engineering company with almost 50,000 employees working in around 100 countries worldwide. In the 2008 financial year, it achieved sales of EUR 12.7 billion.