Praxair Starts Up New Air Separation Plant in East China Petrochemical Park

July 20, 2017

DANBURY, Conn.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–$PX—Praxair,
Inc. (NYSE: PX) announced it has started up its new air separation
plant for Nanjing Jinling Huntsman New Materials Co., Ltd., a joint
venture between SINOPEC Jinling and Huntsman.

Through a long-term contract, the 900-ton-per-day plant will supply
on-site oxygen in the Phase II (Yudai area) of Nanjing Chemical
Industrial Park (NCIP), a chemical production facility in Nanjing, East
China. Jinling Huntsman will use the oxygen in its state-of-the-art
propylene oxide (PO) and methyl tertiary butyl ether (MTBE) plant. PO is
used to make polyurethane materials and MTBE is a clean fuel additive.

Additionally, Praxair will build a pipeline in the park to meet the
industrial gas requirements of other customers and will also supply
liquid products to the market in Jiangsu province.

“Praxair is the first industrial gas pipeline supplier in the Yudai area
of NCIP,” said Will Li, president of Praxair China. “This project will
expand Praxair’s operations in China and enables us to further provide a
reliable supply of industrial gases to our customers in the region.”

About Praxair

Praxair, Inc., a Fortune 300 company with 2016 sales of $11 billion, is
a leading industrial gas company in North and South America and one of
the largest worldwide.
The company produces, sells and distributes atmospheric, process and
specialty gases,
and high-performance surface coatings. Praxair products, services
and technologies are making our planet more productive by bringing
efficiency and environmental benefits to a wide variety of industries,
including aerospace,
chemicals,
food
and beverage, electronics,
energy,
healthcare,
manufacturing, primary metals and many others. More information about
Praxair, Inc. is available at www.praxair.com.