Jun 7 2006
BOC India Limited (BOCI), a subsidiary of The BOC Group, has entered into a long-term contract to supply gases for an expansion programme underway at JSW Steel Limited (JSW) at Bellary, Karnataka, southern India.
JSW Steel Limited operates a world-class steel making facility at Bellary and is nearly doubling its capacity to 7 million tonnes a year. Under the new contract, BOCI will supply JSW Steel over 3,000 tonnes per day of gaseous oxygen, nitrogen and argon from a custom-built air separation unit (ASU). To meet this requirement BOCI will set up one of the largest build-and-operate on-site air separation plant in the country. The state-of-the-art ASU will meet all of JSW Steel’s gases requirements and additionally will produce liquid products to meet the growing demand from customers in southern India. This ASU, which will be one of BOC’s largest in Asia, is expected to be commissioned in 2008 in time to meet the requirements of gases arising from the ongoing expansion programme at JSW Steel.
This contract follows an earlier agreement signed last year with JSW Steel to supply its Bellary site with some 1,400 tonnes per day of oxygen and nitrogen. An ASU is currently under construction by a BOC joint venture, with commercial production expected to begin later this year. In addition to its major air separation plants in Jamshedpur, Tarapur and Taloja, BOCI has recently commissioned its latest merchant ASU in Hyderabad.
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