Air Products South Africa unveiled its R300m Eastern Cape air separation unit (ASU) in the Coega Industrial Development Zone (IDZ) at a ceremony held in the country on November 6th.
The state-of-the-art, energy-efficient facility is the first of its kind to be commissioned in the Eastern Cape and is the sixteenth ASU to be commissioned countrywide by Air Products South Africa.
The Coega ASU is the second to be launched by Air Products in South Africa this year, and forms part of its long-term capital investment pipeline of R2bn. The investment pipeline is aimed at establishing a solid national gas production and supply footprint.
“We committed to supply gas to our Eastern Cape customers by the fourth quarter of 2014. We are actually ahead, with the plant already commissioned in September. We are therefore successfully providing a stable and secure supply of industrial gases to the region,” Air Products General Manager: Central Services, Josua le Roux said.
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