Air Products has been awarded new long-term contracts from Samsung Display to supply gaseous nitrogen (N2) and oxygen (O2), and liquid argon (Ar) to Samsung’s Organic Light Emitting Diode (OLED) manufacturing complex in South Korea.
Air Liquide is to increase its hydrogen (H2) and carbon monoxide (CO) supply to Kumbo Mitsui Chemical Inc (KMCI) after the Tier One company signed a new long-term contract with the South Korean chemical group.
From perceived to being in something of a demand lull 5+ years ago, the electronics gases business is firmly in vogue right now, as the further expansion of Air Products’ supply to Samsung demonstrates.
Air Products has revealed the next phases of expansion to build two more nitrogen (N2) plants serving Samsung Electronics’ giga fab in South Korea.
From the very first month of the year, 2017 proved to be a strong year for the industrial gases industry – full of project announcements, capacity investments, and breaking M&A news from around the globe.
Largest Korean industrial gases company Daesung Industrial Gases has signed a contract for a new air separation unit (ASU) in Guangzhou, China.
Eugene Superfreeze, a subsidiary of Eugene Group, is building the world’s first energy fully-independent cryogenic distribution centre in South Korea – and it’s expected to be completed in December 2018.
Praxair has started up three new vacuum pressure swing adsorption (VPSA) plants at the Daesan petrochemical complex located on the west coast of the Korean peninsula.
Praxair has signed a long-term agreement to build, own and operate an air separation plant that will supply 700 tonnes per day of nitrogen (N2) to Samsung’s display manufacturing complex in Tangjeong, South Korea.
Air Products has been awarded the oxygen (O2) supply for Korean chemical company LG Chem’s (LGC) new production facility.
