Air Products’ 54.7m long cold box has been offloaded in Richards Bay harbour, South Africa. The largest cold box ever brought to South Africa was to be taken to Air Products’ facility in Newcastle, in KwaZulu-Natal, due to increasing oxygen demand from steel maker Arcelor Mittal.
At a cost of over R280-million, the expansion needed at the Air Products Newcastle facility is expected to be complete late in the year with the cold box scheduled to come on stream by the end of 2008.
For the last 38 years Air Products’ Newcastle plant has been providing a continuous supply of large volumes of oxygen to the ArcelorMitttal steel plant. but ArcelorMittal needs a substantially increased oxygen supply to its blast furnace No 5.
The R30-million cold box is being brought into the country fully assembled from Air Products’ Acrefare branch in North Wales, UK. Acrefare manufactures and exports industrial gas plant and equipment all over the world, including process equipment for air separation, natural gas liquefaction, hydrogen purification and other gas processing applications.
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