INTERNATIONAL NEWS
Praxair Signs Contract
with EVRAZ in Russia
(Danbury, ConneCtiCut,
uSa) Praxair Rus, a subsidiary
of Praxair, Inc. has entered into
a contract to supply oxygen,
nitrogen and argon to NTMK,
a division of the EVRAZ Group,
a global steel company with its
main steel production facilities
in Russia. Praxair will build new,
energy-efficient air separation
plants and supply more than
3,000 tons per day of industrial
gases to NTMK in Nizhniy Tagil,
the center of the industrial
region of Sverdlovsk in central
Russia. The new plants are
scheduled to start up in late
2013 and will replace older air
separation plants and produce
liquid products for the local
market. Praxair www.praxair.
com 203-837-2311
Pfeiffer Vacuum Closes
Acquisition of Adixen
(aSSlar, Germany) Pfeiffer
Vacuum Technology AG closed
the acquisition of Alcatel-Lucent’s Vacuum Technology
Unit “Adixen”. The company
had announced the intention
to purchase Adixen on November 3, 2010. The purchase price
totals approximately € 200 million on a debt/cash-free basis.
In order to finance the deal,
Pfeiffer Vacuum had generated
about € 112 million through a
capital increase and sale of
treasury shares on November
18. The remaining part of the
purchase price was funded
through a bank loan. Pfeiffer
Vacuum www.pfeiffer-vacuum.
com +49 (0) 6441 802 346
AGC Instruments
announce two new
distributors
(Clare, irelanD) AGC Instruments announce the appointments of Macro Group Enterprise Co., Ltd (Taiwan) and
GnL Co. Ltd (South Korea) as
the latest AGC Instruments
distributors to the Pacific
Rim territory. These new distributors will represent AGC
Instruments complete line of
products. AGC Instruments
www.agc-instruments.com
+353 61 471632
Air Products to Supply
Nitrogen and Bulk Gases
to Taiwan Wafer Fab
(lehiGh Valley, PennSylVania) Air products announced
that its subsidiary in Taiwan, Air
Products San Fu Co. Ltd., has
signed a letter of intent (LOI)
with United Microelectronics
Corporation (UMC) to provide
nitrogen and bulk gases to its
new Fab 12 Phase Three and
Phase Four in the Tainan Science Industrial Park (TSIP). Air
Products will supply nitrogen
to UMC’s new 300mm wafer
fab via its extended pipeline
system in the park. Air Products www.airproducts.com
610-481-1192
Air Liquide Commissions
ADSUs in Poland
(PariS, FranCe) Air Liquide
announces the commissioning
of two air separation units in
Poland, both of the standardized YangO2 type, located in
Zakłady Azotowe in Puławy. The
new air separation units are the
biggest liquid and gas source
in Central and Eastern Poland,
with an aggregate production capacity of around 1,700
tonnes per day. This investment
is included in the €100 million
overall investment in Poland
announced in June 2010. The
new facilities will meet the
growing needs of existing customers and potential clients. Air
Liquide www.airliquide.com +
33 (0)1 40 62 55 55
Hiden Releases Mass
Spectrometer Literature
(WarrinGton, uK) The bro-
chure, Mass Spectrometers for
Thin Films, Plasma and Surface
Engineering, details a range of
mass spectrometer products
specifically developed for spe-
cialized vacuum process appli-
cations under diverse pressure
regimes from sub-atmospheric
to ultra-high vacuum. The
application-specific systems are
configured for monitoring, con-
trolling and analyzing varied
processes related to thin film
deposition, to plasma and ion
beam etching, and to thermal
reaction and desorption pro-
cesses. Systems are available
for real-time measurement of
gas composition and of both
positive and negative plasma
ion species and ion energies,
supplied fully engineered with
dedicated process interface.
Applicable process techniques
include ALD, CVD and MOCVD,
MBE, RIE and IBE/RIBE. For a
copy of the brochure contact
Hiden Analytical at info@
hiden.co.uk. Hiden Analytical
www.hidenanalytical.com +44
(0)1925 445 225
McCrometer Opens Sales
Office in Malaysia
(hemet, CaliFornia, uSa)
McCrometer has appointed
Ray Loo as Regional Sales
Manager for South East Asia.
Loo will allow McCrometer to
assist customers with oil and
gas and industrial process flow
measurement. Other changes
within the sales organization
include: Nick Johnson and
David Splatt promoted to Director of Sales for the oil/gas and
industrial process markets. Nick
Johnson’s territory includes
North and South America, and
David Splatt’s will serve Asia, the
Middle East and most of Africa.
McCrometer www.mccrometer.
com +1 281- 998-0449
