Paris, June 16, 2011
China: further development in the Hefei
Industrial Basin press release
Air Liquide announces that it has signed a long-term agreement with IRICO
Contacts: Electronics, a subsidiary of the IRICO Group, to supply oxygen to its new glass plant located in the Hefei Xinzhan Comprehensive Experiment Zone (Anhui province, China)
Corporate Communications where many high-tech industries (semiconductors, thin-Film Transistor Crystal Display
Corinne Estrade-Bordry industry, plasma display panels, etc) are setting up bases. IRICO Electronics’ plant will
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Under the terms of the agreement, Air Liquide will invest in an Air Separation Unit
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(ASU) with a capacity of 770 tonnes of oxygen per day in the same industrial zone.
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The ASU, which will be commissioned at the end of 2012, will also produce gaseous
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Air Liquide has also recently commissioned a large high-purity nitrogen plant in this zone
Air Liquide China to supply carrier gases through pipelines to the flat display panel plant of BOE (Beijing
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Oriental Electronics Technology Group). BOE is China’s largest domestic TFT-LCD (thin
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Air Liquide’s total investment in the industrial basin of Hefei will come to around 50 million.
Established in 1978, as the first color picture tubes (CPTs) producer in China, IRICO also
Air Liquide in China manufactures related CPT components, glass related products and glasses for photovoltaic operates today more than 40 plants cells. IRICO Group is one of many large scale state-owned enterprises under the and employs about 3,500 people,
SASAC (the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission) in China. with a presence in the key coastal industrial areas, while expanding into The photovoltaic project, a major investment for IRICO Electronics in Hefei, boasts three the west and the northeast. full oxygen burning glass melting furnaces, with a melting capacity of 500 tons per day
Air Liquide has also strong each. Full oxygen technology brings energy efficiencies as well as reducing nitrous oxides
Engineering capabilities through (NOx) emissions. In addition, new glass production lines will be built as IRICO aims to build
Air Liquide Hangzhou and Lurgi. in Hefei a large solar photovoltaic glass factory.
Air Liquide returned to China in the
A spokesperson for IRICO said: « After fruitful discussion, we have decided to 1970s to supply air separation units choose Air Liquide to be the partner of IRICO Electronics. Thanks to Air Liquide’s and restarted gas operations in 1990. integrated industrial gases solutions with pipelines systems in the Zone, we can better focus on our core business. We look forward to a close partnership with Air
Liquide and hope to benefit from its worldwide capabilities. »
Jean-Marc de Royere, Senior Vice-President Air Liquide Group in charge of Asia Pacific and a member of the Executive Committee, said: « These contracts illustrate
Air Liquide’s strategy of supporting industrial basins and high tech industries in www.airliquide.com Page 1/2

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