Major contract: Air Liquide selected to build, own and operate the world’s largest oxygen production unit for Sasol in South Africa

Air Liquide and Sasol, an international integrated energy and chemicals company, have signed a long-term agreement for the supply of large quantities of industrial gases to Sasol’s Secunda site (around 140 km East of Johannesburg). Air Liquide will invest around € 200 million for the construction of the largest Air Separation Unit (ASU) ever built, with total capacity of 5,000 tonnes of oxygen per day equivalent industrial gas production.