Wednesday, December 16th, 2009
Seoul, Korea - Praxair Korea, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Praxair Inc. (NYSE: PX - News), has started up a new air separation unit to supply 1,975 tons per day of nitrogen gas to support Samsung Electronics' advanced thin-film-transistor, liquid-crystal-display (TFT-LCD) factory in Tangjeong, South Korea. It is Praxair's second air separation plant at the facility.
Samsung's Tangjeong complex is the world's first and largest eighth generation TFT-LCD plant and is designed to expand to meet demand for future generations of LCDs.