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The Linde Group and Erdemir Group to build new ASU in Turkey

| By Gerald Ondrey

 

The Turkish steel producer Erdemir Group and the German technology company The Linde Group (Munich, Germany; www.linde.com) have signed a Letter of Intent to form a joint venture (JV) in order to build a new air separation unit (ASU) in Iskenderun, southern Turkey. From 2017 onwards, the new plant — which will be the largest ASU operated by an industrial gases company in Turkey — will supply up to 1,700 metric tons of oxygen and nitrogen per day to a steel mill run by Isdemir, an Erdemir subsidiary, through a build, own, operate (BOO) business model. This is the first international JV undertaken by the Erdemir Group, Turkey’s first and largest integrated flat steel producer, in its 50-year history.

The state-of-the-art ASU will be designed and constructed by Linde´s Engineering Division. The JV will also be responsible for the operation and maintenance of Isdemir’s existing industrial gases production facilities.