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Air Products to build and operate high
purity nitrogen plant for Guardian Glass
Wednesday 22th January 2003 - Air Products PLC has
been awarded a long-term contract to supply ultra high purity
nitrogen to Guardian Glass at their new state of the art
float* glass facility, in Goole, East Yorkshire, UK. Under
the terms of the agreement, Air Products will build and
operate the Prism HPN20 plant on behalf of Guardian.
The plant will produce 60 metric tonnes per day of high
purity nitrogen, for the manufacture of architectural flat
glass. Air Products will also supply liquid nitrogen from
its plant in Hull, to operate the HPN plant, for back up
and to respond to peak shaving.
"Air Products was selected on the basis of their wide
experience in on-site generated gases and their desire to
offer us a competitive, cost effective solution to our requirements",
explains John Elkington of Guardian
'This contract is one among several oxygen and nitrogen
on-site generation contracts that we have signed with glass
manufacturers across Europe in the last few years,"
explains Rob Mills, glass business manager for Air Products
Europe. "We have already worked with Guardian Glass
in North America, South America and Asia. In Goole, we will
be providing Guardian Glass with a complete turn-key package,
supplying nitrogen at low cost with minimum power usage.
Guardian required advanced, innovative and cost effective
technologies to match their needs, and we are proud that
we were selected on this basis."
Air Products is a major supplier of on-site generated gases
and combustion systems to the Glass industry worldwide,
with recent European contracts signed which include Philips,
UK; Superglass, UK and Glaverbel, Czech Republic. The onsite
generation concept for the supply of oxygen and nitrogen,
allows the client to minimise capital investment and reduce
operating costs, as the plant is built, operated and maintained
by Air Products.
The plant is scheduled to be in operation 1st September
2003.
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* The float process produces a ribbon of nearly perfect
glass by "floating" molten glass on a bath of
liquid tin.
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