Air Products Brings Its Air Separation Facility On-Stream in Tangshan     

On March 18th Air Products announced that it recently brought on-stream its third air separation facility (ASU) in Tangshan, Hebei province, Northern China to supply oxygen, nitrogen and liquid argon to Tangshan Guofeng Steel Co., Ltd. and other local customers.
   Air Products was awarded three long-term industrial gas supply contracts to support the business growth plans of Guofeng Steel. With these contracts, three ASUs adjacent to the Guofeng Steel mills were built, with the first two ASUs placed on-stream in mid-2005 and at the end of 2007, respectively. The new ASU was designed and built primarily by Air Products' engineering center in Shanghai and its cryogenic manufacturing center in Caojing, near Shanghai. Air Products has been supplying customers in Tangshan since 1997, and is a leading gas supplier to the steel industry in Northern China.