MOSCOW (MRC) -- Praxair has started up a new air separation unit (ASU) in Nanjing, China, to supply industrial gases to Nanjing Jinling Huntsman New Materials Co. (Jinling Huntsman) for a new propylene oxide (PO) and methyl tertiary butyl ether (MTBE) facility, according to Apic-online.
Jinling Huntsman, a joint venture of Sinopec Jinling and Huntsman, earlier said it would invest USD750-million in a project to produce 550-million lbs/yr of PO and 1.6-billion lbs/yr of MTBE, based on Huntsman technology.
The new 900-t/d ASU will supply on-site oxygen in the Phase II (Yudai area) of Nanjing Chemical Industrial Park (NCIP), and through a long-term contract, will supply oxygen to Jinling Huntsman's PO/MTBE plant.
Additionally, Praxair said it will build a pipeline in the NCIP to meet the industrial gas requirements of other customers, and will also supply liquid products to the market in Jiangsu province.
As MRC wrote before, in mid-July 2017, Praxair, Inc. announced the start-up of a new air separation plant to supply 700 tons per day of nitrogen to Samsung’s display manufacturing complex in Tangjeong, South Korea. Samsung’s Tangjeong complex, the world’s first and largest sixth-generation flexible Organic Light Emitting Diodes (OLED) panel plant, is expanding to meet increasing demand for future generations of displays. OLEDs are used in a variety of products including televisions, mobile devices, digital cameras, virtual reality headsets and laptops. Praxair’s nitrogen is being used for cooling and purging applications in Samsung’s manufacturing process.
Praxair, Inc., a Fortune 300 company with 2016 sales of USD11 billion, is a leading industrial gas company in North and South America and one of the largest worldwide. The company produces, sells and distributes atmospheric, process and specialty gases, and high-performance surface coatings. Praxair products, services and technologies are making our planet more productive by bringing efficiency and environmental benefits to a wide variety of industries, including aerospace, chemicals, food and beverage, electronics, energy, healthcare, manufacturing, primary metals and many others.
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