Air Liquide to Supply Yutianhua with Gas     

Air Liquide has signed a long-term contract with Yutianhua, Shaanxi Yulin Natural Gas Chemical Industry. Under the terms of the agreement, Air Liquide will invest about Euro 60 million in a new large Air Separation Unit (ASU) - with a production capacity of 2 700 tons of oxygen per day - to supply oxygen and nitrogen to Yutianhua. Air Liquide announced on November 12th.
   The ASU, designed and built by Air Liquide Hangzhou, the Air Liquide engineering center in China, will use Air Liquide's latest technologies providing both high reliability and energy efficiency.
   Yutianhua, a natural gas based methanol player in China, has a current production capacity of 510 thousand tons per year. In 2008, Yutianhua launched an additional 600 thousand t/a coal-based methanol project with a total investment of RMB3 billion. This is the first phase of a major methanol project. The methanol plant is located in Yuheng Chemical Industrial Park of Yulin city, Shaanxi province. Air Liquide's new ASU will be located next to the Yutianhua site.