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News from Abroad

INDUSTRIAL GASES
Air Liquide to supply oxygen to LG Chem’s battery

plant in US

French industrial gases major, Air
Liquide, will invest around $150-mn
to expand its production capacity and
pipeline network in Tennessee, US, in
the context of a new long-term contract
with South Korea’s LG Chem.

Triggered by LG Chem’s new need
for oxygen at their proposed cathode
active material manufacturing plant for
lithium-ion electric vehicle batteries,
Air Liquide will build, own and operate
a second ASU, liquefier, storage and a opportunities and ensure a better den- President, Americas, commented, “As
pipeline at its Airgas production facility sity coverage of the region with a part of the long-term contract signed
located in Clarksville, Tennessee. Airgas, reliable supply to industrial, health- with LG Chem, we will be putting our
an American supplier of industrial gases care, pharmaceutical, food production, solutions at the service of the battery
was acquired by Air Liquide in 2016. water treatment and other customers ecosystem in the US. Additionally,
throughout Kentucky and Tennessee. through this investment, Airgas will
As part of this investment, the The Group will leverage electricity more than double its local liquid
expansion of the Airgas facility, first from renewable sources to produce and nitrogen, oxygen and argon production
inaugurated in 2013, is expected to be make low-carbon products available to which will enable us to support the
commissioned in 2027. It will produce customers. increasing demand from merchant cus-
additional oxygen, nitrogen and argon tomers in Tennessee and surrounding
enabling the Group to seize growth Mr. Matthieu Giard, Group Vice states.”

CHINESE INVESTMENTS
Celanese opens electronic inks & pastes lab in Shenzhen;

expands tech centre in Shanghai

Celanese, the US-based specialty
materials and chemicals company, has
ramped up its presence in China with
two new investments.

The company opened its Micromax
Electronic Inks and Pastes Lab in
Shenzhen for providing technical ser-
vice and application development for
thick film pastes and low temperature
co-fired ceramic products with compre-
hensive processing and characterisation
capabilities. The lab will serve the com-
pany’s customers in the automotive,

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