Air Liquide (AL) recently announced that it has just signed in Hungary, a 15 year contract with its customer DAM, a subsidiary of the Ukrainian Donbass Group, one of the major steel producers in the world.
Air Liquide will install and operate an on-site unit to supply oxygen, to be commissioned mid-2008 in Miskolc, north-east Hungary.
AL has also signed, in Bulgaria, a new 15 year contract with its customer Cumerio, to supply oxygen to its copper smelting plant at Pirdop, 80km east of Sofia. AL now owns all the existing ASU on the site, with a combined capacity of 800 tonnes per day of oxygen.
In the Automative sector, AL recently signed in Poland two new long term contracts with Timken and Delphi for the on-site supply of nitrogen. Timken is located in Sosnowiec and manufactures bearings for the automotive industry. Delphi’s facility in Ostrów Wielkopolski manufactures and assembles various automotive parts and components. Both on-site units will be commissioned in mid-2008.
