Praxair plans to build a 300 tonne/day industrial gases plant in the Pune-Mumbai industrial corridor of western India, with start-up expected in late 2012, the US-based firm said on Tuesday.
Praxair said the plant, about 60km (37 miles) from Mumbai, will supply liquid oxygen, nitrogen and argon to customers in India's Maharashtra and Gujarat states, which are production hubs for the chemicals, textile, glass, aluminium, and food processing industries.
Project costs were not disclosed.
Praxair is currently also building a facility to supply gaseous hydrogen and nitrogen to Indian Oil at Paradip, Orissa, and it is building two air separation plants for steel firm SAIL at Bhilai in Chhattisgarh, it said.
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