Indian state-run steel producer Steel Authority of India Limited (SAIL) has ordered a large-scale cryogenic air separation plant from Air Water India Private Limited, a subsidiary of Japan-based Air Water Inc.
Accordingly, Air Water India will design and build a new state-of-the-art air separation plant adjacent to SAIL’s Durgapur mill, entailing an investment of about 13.5 billion JPY ($90.60 million). The unit in question will have an oxygen production capacity of 1,250 mt per day, along with producing nitrogen and argon, and is scheduled to start gas supply to the mill by October 2025.
Additionally, the company will commission a gas filling plant by the end of this year and a liquefied gas plant in Chennai in October 2024, where approximately 40 percent of the electricity used will be generated from renewable energy such as solar power.