Danbury industrial gas maker Praxair Inc. signed yet another air-supply deal in China, this one with a producer of a chemical feedstock used to make household detergent, solvents and plastics.
Praxair China said it inked a long-term contract for unspecified terms with Oxiranchem Yangzhou Co., Ltd. to supply on-site industrial gases to their chemical park located in the Jiangsu province.
Oxiranchem produces ethylene oxide, also known as oxirane, fine chemicals and related derivatives.
Praxair will build and run, starting in 2014, an air-separation plant churning out of 500 tons daily of oxygen.
The plant will supply oxygen and nitrogen to the Yangzhou Chemical Industry Park for the production of 200,000 tons per year of ethylene oxide and 300,000 tons per year of derivative fine chemicals at the Oxiranchem facility located within the same park.
In July, Praxair threw the switch on a pair of China air separation plants in China: One at the Meishan Iron and Steel Co. Ltd. plant in Nanjing, Jiangsu province; the other for the Anhui Wuwei project of Anhui HuaYi Chemical Co. Ltd. one of the nation’s biggest producers of chemicals from gasified coal.
Those are among a half-dozen other China plants Praxair operates or has on the drawing boards.
