BOC JOINT VENTURE TO SUPPLY OXYGEN TO NEW MONO ETHYLENE GLYCOL PLANT IN MAP TA PHUT, THAILAND

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BOC JOINT VENTURE TO SUPPLY OXYGEN TO NEW MONO ETHYLENE GLYCOL PLANT IN MAP TA PHUT, THAILAND
24 September 2006 - BOC Gases

MIG Production Co. Ltd, a joint venture between Thai Industrial Gases PCL and Bangkok Industrial Gas Company Ltd has been awarded a long-term contract to supply 800 tonnes a day of oxygen to a new mono ethylene glycol project operated by TOC Glycol Co. Ltd. in Map Ta Phut, Thailand.

MIGP will invest USD 50 million to build an air separation unit on an adjacent site to the TOCGC new mono ethylene glycol plant. Scheduled to come on-stream in the second quarter of 2006, the facility will produce 1,300 tonnes of oxygen a day, making it the largest ASU in Thailand. The excess capacity from the new facility will serve the parent companies’ tonnage and merchant markets.

TOCGC is a subsidiary of Thai Olefins Public Company Limited. TOC, a leading producer of ethylene, propylene and petrochemical by-products, recently expanded its ethylene production and established TOCGC to produce 300,000 tonnes a year of mono ethylene glycol in Map Ta Phut.

Mono ethylene glycol is a petrochemical used mainly in the manufacture of polyester textile fibres and polyethylene terephthalate bottles. Currently there is no domestic producer of ethylene glycol in Thailand and all ethylene glycol is imported.

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