A new oxygen supply contract and contract extensions demnonstrate strength between the French industrial magnate, Air Liquide and North American metallurgy specialist, Nucor Steel.
The French industrial gas tier one player, Air Liquide, is to expand its relationship with the North American metallurgy specialist, Nucor Steel. Air Liquide has won a supply deal with Nucor’s Direct Reduced Iron (DRI) plant in Convent Louisiana and has extended its existing contracts to serve Nucor’s plants in both Berkley County, South Carolina and Blytheville, Arkansas.
Air Liquide will supply approximately 794 tons (720 metric tonnes) per day of oxygen to Nucor’s new Convent plant with capacity from its new Air Separation Unit (ASU) in Geismar, Louisiana, which serves the local industrial basin via Air Liquide’s extensive Mississippi River Pipeline System.
In addition, the Berkeley and Blytheville agreements augment Air Liquide’s existing long-term oxygen, nitrogen and argon supply agreements to both locations.
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