Praxair Inc. (NYSE: PX), Danbury, CT, has started up a new air separation plant at the Liaoning Oxiranchem Inc. facility in Yangzhou Chemical Industrial Park, Jiangsu Province, China.
The 600-ton-per-day plant will supply on-site, high-purity oxygen and nitrogen to Oxiran, an industrial company focused on the development and sale of ethylene oxide derivative chemicals in China.
Praxair is the exclusive industrial gas supplier in the growing chemical park in east China, which has port access to the Yangtze River.