Senior Directors and staff from BOC and SSI UK joined local business leaders and other dignitaries at a ceremony at BOC’s Teesside site today to mark the start of a 15-year supply agreement between the two companies.
Under the agreement, BOC, a member of The Linde Group and the biggest industrial gases company in the UK, will supply industrial gases to SSI Steel UK, a major integrated iron and steel manufacturing facility based on Teesside.
The agreement, which follows SSI’s purchase of the Teesside steelworks from Tata Steel in 2011, is one of the largest gases contracts ever awarded in the UK. It represents a long-term commitment by both companies to support steelmaking on Teesside.
To support the contract, BOC has invested £25m in its Teesside site.
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