Praxair, Inc. has signed a long-term supply contract with United Phosphorus Limited (UPL) in Jhagadia, India, for the supply of gaseous nitrogen to the company’s manufacturing unit in central Gujarat.
Praxair said the agreement strengthens its presence in the fast-growing Western region of the country.
UPL is one of India’s largest agrochemicals manufacturers and a leading global producer of crop protection products, intermediates, specialty chemicals and other industrial chemicals. The company is expanding its production capacity, resulting in an increase in its nitrogen usage.
Praxair will build, own and operate a 45-tons-per-day nitrogen plant, which is expected to start up in the second half of this year.
The plant will also replace some of the existing customer-owned lower-efficiency nitrogen production equipment currently in place at the site. Praxair is already supplying UPL through a 20-tons-per-day nitrogen plant installed at the Jhagadia site in 2013.
“The small on-site nitrogen plants designed by Praxair offer UPL and our customers operational efficiency and process reliability,” said Anuj Sharma, managing director, Praxair India.
Praxair, a Fortune 250 company with 2014 sales of $12.3 billion, is the largest industrial gases company in North and South America and one of the largest worldwide.
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