BOC India Limited (BOCI), a member of The Linde Group, on Monday, announced that it had bagged a major long-term industrial gases supply contract from Tata Steel for the first phase of its greenfield integrated steelworks project in Kalinganagar in Odisha. BOCI will invest 80 million euro to construct two large new air separation plants, each with a capacity of 1,200 tonnes per day, to supply gaseous oxygen, nitrogen and argon to meet the production requirements of the new plant. BOCI’s new air separation plants, to be commissioned in 2014, will also produce liquid products to meet the growing demand for gases in the merchant market, according to an official statement.
BOCI also intends to establish an extensive pipeline network through the industrial complex to meet the gases demand of the various steel production units operating there, the release added.
Keywords: BOC India, The Linde Group, industrial gases supply contract
