Shanghai Chemical Industry Park Industrial Gases Company (SCIPIG), a 50-50 joint venture between Praxair Inc. and Air Liquide, two leading global suppliers of industrial gas, has reached an agreement with Bayer MaterialScience to supply industrial gases to facilities at the Bayer Integrated Site Shanghai.

Under the 15-year industrial gases pipeline supply contract, SCIPIG will supply oxygen and nitrogen from its air separation facility, which has a total capacity of 8,250 cubic meters per hour (about 277 tons per day).

Deliveries under the contract are expected to start in 2008.

Prior to the contract, SCIPIG, founded in December 2001, had already been awarded major contracts by SECCO, Sinopec Shanghai Gaoqiao Co., BASF Chemicals Co., Ltd. (BACH), Huntsman Polyurethane Shanghai Ltd. (HPS), Shanghai Chlor- Alkali Chemical Co., Ltd., Shanghai Lianheng Isocyanate Co., Ltd. (SLIC) and Shanghai BASF Polyurethane Co., Ltd. (SBPC). With a designed production capacity of over 100,000 cubic meters per hour (about 1800 tons per day), SCIPIG ranks as one of the largest industrial gas production bases in China and all of Asia. Today SCIPIG provides a complete range of products including oxygen, nitrogen, compressed air, carbon monoxide, hydrogen and steam to its customers.

Source:佚名