Air Liquide Contracted to Supply Extra Volumes of Oxygen to Copper Smelter Aurubis Bulgaria

Business » INDUSTRY | October 13, 2011, Thursday // 14:02
Bulgaria: Air Liquide Contracted to Supply Extra Volumes of Oxygen to Copper Smelter Aurubis Bulgaria File photo. EPA/BGNES

French Air Liquide has signed a new contract with copper smelter Aurubis Bulgaria for the supply of additional quantities of gaseous oxygen, the company said in a statement Thursday.

Aurubis will pour an extra EUR 10 M into the expansion of its facility near the central Bulgarian town of Pirdop.

Under the new 15-year agreement, Air Liquide will supply an additional 350 tons of oxygen to Aurubis as of 2013.

The French industrial gas company currently supplies 800 tons of oxygen a day to the copper production plant.

Aurubis AG, Hamburg is the largest copper producer in Europe and the global leader in copper recycling.

Aurubis' Pirdop-based plant has a capacity to produce around 1 million tons of copper cathodes per year.

"This is the first important step of our new investment programme for environmental protection and increasing productivity, "Aurubis Bulgaria 2014". I am very pleased with this agreement, said Nicolas Treand, CEO of Aurubis Bulgaria.

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