The company will build, own and operate the steam methane reformer which is expected to start up in 2021. The plant is also expected to have a capacity in excess of 170 million standard cubic feet per day of high-purity hydrogen.

The plant comprises a new carbon monoxide purification train with a capacity to handle more than 13 million cubic feet per day. The facility also leverages proprietary technologies to improve the overall efficiency of the Geismar site.

The move has been undertaken to support the rising demand of industrial gases and chemicals in South West Missouri and neighbouring parts of Arkansas, Oklahoma and Kansas.

Under the long-term agreement, Praxair will construct two vacuum pressure swing adsorption plants at the facility and also utilise its proprietary HOB technology for increasing syngas yield from the gasification process.

On completion, the new facility is expected to produce 30 tonnes of high purity liquid hydrogen per day. The plant is being established owing to the increase in demand from multiple sectors.

Praxair has signed a long-term agreement to supply ultra-high purity nitrogen to Samsung’s world-class semiconductor facility in Hwaseong, South Korea. This is the fifth plant the engineering company will build at this site.

Praxair’s largest investment in China comes after the company signed a long term agreement with Shanghai Huayi to supply oxygen and other industrial gas to the latter’s new chemical material facility.

Nach der Europäischen Kommission hat nun auch die US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) die fusionskontrollrechtliche Freigabe des Unternehmenszusammenschlusses zwischen Linde und Praxair erteilt. Die Genehmigung der US-Kartellbehörde fordert allerdings die Erfüllung von Auflagen bei der Umsetzung bestimmter Veräußerungs- und Verhaltenszusagen.

Die geplante Fusion von Praxair und Linde droht an den Auflagen der Wettbewerbsbehörden zu scheitern. Offenbar verlangt die US-Kartellbehörde FTC den Verkauf von weiteren Unternehmensteilen in einem Umfang, der die von den Unternehmen vereinbarte Umsatzobergrenze von 3,7 Milliarden Euro überschreiten würde.

Praxair has started up two new air separation plants to supply China National Offshore Oil Corporation (Cnooc).