Linde Awarded Billion Dollar Contract
July 2, 2009 – Industrial gases and engineering company The Linde Group has won a contract worth $1.075 billion from Borouge, a company that provides innovative plastics solutions, to build another 1.5 million tonnes per year (t/y) ethane cracker at a Borouge production site in Ruwais, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.
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Praxair Acquires Sermatech International
July 2, 2009 – Praxair Surface Technologies, Inc., a subsidiary of Praxair, Inc., acquired Sermatech International Holdings Corp. from private equity firm Arsenal Capital Partners. Sermatech supplies protective coatings and advanced processes used on industrial and aviation gas turbines for the aerospace, defense, power generation, and oil and gas markets.
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The Linde Group Strengthens Its Liquidity Profile
July 1, 2009 – The Linde Group signed a two-year euro-denominated forward start revolving credit facility in an amount of EUR 1.6 billion available from 2011 onwards. It will be available as of March 3, 2011 and will be the company’s primary liquidity source from banks.
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Air Liquide Creates Research Chair for CO2 Emissions Studies
June 30, 2009 – Industrial gas company Air Liquide has initiated the first teaching and research chair on CO2 capture, transport, and storage with the engineering school École des Mines of Paris and the city of Le Havre. This chair will provide financing for research work conducted by students.
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Airgas Continues Troop Support with $100,000 Donation
June 30, 2009 – Airgas, Inc., US distributor of industrial, medical, and specialty gases, reaffirmed its commitment to Operation Homefront with its second of three pledged donations of $100,000. Operation Homefront provides emergency assistance and moral support to deployed US troops’ families and to wounded service members when they return home.
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Linde Impacts Semiconductors, Sustainability
June, 29, 2009 –Industrial gas company Linde Gases has installed Europe’s first CE-marked on-site electronics grade fluorine (F2) generator at STMicroelectronics’ Crolles 300mm wafer fabrication plant in France as part of STMicroelectronics’ initiative to lower the environmental impact of producing semiconductors.
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A-Gas and Matheson Tri-Gas, Inc. Agreement
June 29, 2009 – Matheson Tri-Gas, Inc. announced that A-Gas, a specialty gas and chemicals company headquartered in the United Kingdom, has signed a Global ENABLEsm Premier Agreement. This alliance between A-Gas and the Matheson Tri-Gas’ Global ENABLEsm Program will allow A-Gas to distribute Matheson brand products.
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Serbian Copper Mine Supplied by Messer
June 25, 2009 – Messer Tehnogas AD, the Serbian subsidiary of Messer Group, the industrial gases specialist, has won the contract to supply oxygen to Serbia’s RTB Bor (Rudnici bakra Bor d.o.o.) copper combine for the next five years.
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Linde’s Supply System Helps Neste Develop Low Emission Fuels
June 24, 2009 – In autumn 2009, Linde Gases will install its central specialty gases supply system at Neste Oil’s newly built research and technology laboratory in Porvoo, Finland. The installation will be the largest of its kind in Finland. The lab enables Neste to continue to develop clean fuels.
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One of Middle East’s First ‘Over the Fence’ Gas Supplies Now on Stream
June 24, 2009 – Ajwaa Gases Emirates Company LLC, the joint venture of Air Products and the Abdullah Hashim Group, has brought on stream a new air separation unit and hydrogen production facility for Emirates Float Glass Company in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.
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Praxair China to Supply Argon for Growing Railway
June 23, 2009 – Industrial gas company Praxair China has signed a contract with Nanjing Puzhen Rolling Stock Works, a subsidiary of China South Locomotive & Rolling Stock Corporation Ltd., for the supply of liquid argon, which will be used for welding processes during vehicle production.
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Air Products’ Cryogenic Technology Vital to Algerian LNG Facility
June 18, 2009 – Air Products will provide its proprietary process technology and main cryogenic heat exchanger for Sonatrach’s GNL3Z liquefied natural gas (LNG) project in Arzew, Algeria. Sonatrach will produce 4.7 million metric tons/year of LNG, making the facility train Algeria’s largest single LNG producer.
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Linde Contributes to Opening Baden-Württemberg's First Public Hydrogen Filling Station
June 17, 2009 – At the OMV service station at Stuttgart Airport, OMV, in cooperation with Linde AG and Daimler AG, is opening Baden-Württemberg’s first publicly accessible hydrogen filling station on June 17, 2009. The hydrogen filling station will serve fuel-cell vehicles with 700-bar high-pressure technology.
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