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CRYOQUIP EXPANDS INTO SOUTH AMERICA
2009.07

Cryoquip, Inc. (www.cryoquip.com), manufacturer of high quality industrial gas, cryogenic heat exchangers, heat transfer, and vaporization equipment, has established a 3,500 square meter manufacturing facility located in São Paulo, Brazil. This facility compliments the existing facilities in Malaysia, Australia, Europe, China, India, and the US.

 The São Paulo operation is strategically located near the port of Santos to serve the extensive South American gas market. Cryoquip has supplied a number of large vaporizer systems to South American customers from its US facility, but Cryoquip – South America allows them to enter the local customer station and distribution markets. The ever-increasing demands of the South American gas business, for a wider product range, shorter delivery times, commonality of product, and flexibility in supply, have encouraged Cryoquip to set up this local operation. The complete Cryoquip product range of high- and low-pressure ambient vaporizers, Uniflo vaporizers, electric CO2 vaporizers, and a wide range of water bath vaporizers for high flow rate applications and plant back-up systems, will be supplied from Cryoquip – South America.

 The facility will manufacture a high quality, high performance range of aluminum, low-pressure ambient vaporizers, ranging from 75–2,500Nm3/hour. Small capacity high-pressure ambient vaporizers and electric vaporizers will also be manufactured. South American customers will be able to receive lower prices, quicker deliveries, and local support with installation and technical issues. Cryoquip’s current technical sales office in São Paulo will be incorporated into the new facility.

 
AIR PRODUCTS BRASIL SUPPLIES GUARDIAN GLASS
2009.07

Air Products Brasil, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Air Products (www.airproducts. com), has built, placed on-stream, and is operating an air separation plant that provides nitrogen and oxygen for Guardian Industries’ new float glass manufacturing plant in Tatui, São Paulo, Brazil. Float glass has no wave or distortion and is now the standard method for glass production. Air Products Brasil is also supplying hydrogen, via an on-site plant, and a Cleanfire® HRi™ burner system for Guardian’s new float glass line.

 “We were able to demonstrate that significant operational benefits, specifically fuel savings, can be achieved with the grouped offering we presented to Guardian. The combination of our technologies and reliable supply of essential industrial gases can provide Guardian with the most efficient way, both operationally and environmentally, to produce float glass from its new production line. These technologies can continue to provide benefits in the future, as higher fuel and energy costs are anticipated,” said Bob Lewis, global marketing manager for Generated Gases at Air Products. Lewis added that the Guardian relationship continues to grow Air Products’ presence and investment in meeting industrial gas needs in Brazil.

Air Products Brasil’s construction of an air separation unit to produce nitrogen and oxygen is part of the bundled product offering for Guardian Tatui. Air Products Brasil is also operating an on-site steam methane reformer (SMR) to produce hydrogen for Guardian’s facility. Air Products’ on-site hydrogen product offerings were enhanced in 2008 by the acquisition of Harvest Energy Technology and its novel and patented SMR technology. Further, Air Products’ Cleanfire HRi burner advanced oxy-fuel boost application has been integrated into Guardian’s new glass production plant.

The Cleanfire HRi burner’s advanced oxy-fuel boost application offers several unique benefits to glass production. “This technology delivers higher efficiency melting that reduces the amount of fuel consumed to produce each ton of glass. It also reduces the amount of pollutant emissions by delivering a flat flame geometry that incorporates oxygen staging technology,” says Kevin Lievre, Global Glass Segment Market Manager at Air Products. “Customers using this Cleanfire application can expect to increase glass quality, boost production, and decrease emissions of NOx, SOx, CO2, and particulate matter.”