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72 1988 The USSR and the USA agree on the complete dismantling of all medium-range nuclear missiles. In 1994, Linde opened one of Europe’s largest gas centers in Leuna (near Leipzig). Business in the former Eastern Block State agreements with the countries behind the Iron Curtain with respect to the eastern policy also opened up new business opportunities for Linde AG. The Soviet Union, East Germany, Poland, Romania and Czechoslovakia purchased primarily turnkey oxygen plants for the steel industry and ethylene plants for the chemical industry from Linde. Ethylene plants were also sold to China – although under a different political program. But in contrast to the trade with China, orders from the states of the former USSR fell through after the beginning of 1990. Business relations with EU neighbor-states Poland, the Czech Republic and Hungary showed more positive development. In China, Linde benefited mainly from the build-up of the petrochemical industry and metallurgy. For example, Linde supplied variable-pressure adsorption units for the production of pure hydrogen, a new inert gas production plant, large plants for the production of gaseous and liquid oxygen and nitrogen as well as of all inert gases found in the air in the highest purity. In addition, Linde sold turnkey plants for the preparation of petroleum gases. Major projects in facilities engineering 1989 Soviet Union ends the war in Afghanistan. The fact that the Linde Facilities Engineering segment was able to do well, even despite rather weak demand in the 1980s, can be attributed to Linde’s traditional strengths in the planning and reliable execution of large facilities, good political connections, which led among other things to orders from East Germany and South Africa, and new products and processes. One example is the boom – surprising even to the engineers themselves – in the construction of vacuum-brazed aluminum heat exchangers: Thanks to a Linde-developed manufacturing process, it was possible to build plate heat exchangers with working pressures of up to 96 bar. These plate heat exchangers proved to be so successful that Linde advanced to become the top supplier of these units and the Höllriegelskreuth plant was able to install two additional vacuum brazing furnaces in 1986 and 1987. Also in the 1980s, Linde expanded the Schalchen plant for the production of spiral-wound heat exchangers, tank systems and cold boxes for air and gas separation plants. Major large-scale projects during the 1980s included the construction of the first methanol plant in the US for Georgia Pacific, for which Linde accepted the order in 1983 as an object of reference. The most important major project during this decade was the natural gas terminal for Statoil in Kårstø, Norway, through which natural gas meeting certain specifications from the Ekofisk oil field is delivered by pipeline to Western Europe. More than 100 Linde specialists and some 1800 construction and assembly
N o 4712 Spiral-wound heat exchanger with tube coils wound in a helical line in several positions on a core tube. workers installed 26 process modules and ten prefabricated columns in record time. The terminal went into operation in 1985 – three months ahead of the agreed deadline. In 1990, the TVT plant group, now renamed Process and Facilities Engineering (VA), received its largest order up to that time in the amount of 1.3 billion marks in the face of stiff international competition from BASF. As general contractor, Linde handled the planning, construction and installation of a turnkey ethylene plant. Linde’s plant constructors moved forward in new dimensions in 1997: They received an order from the Mexican oil company Pemex to construct the fourth largest air separation plants in the world, with a total value of 150 million US dollars. These plants went into operation in the year 2000. In the context of the world’s shrinking oil reserves, natural gas is gaining increasing importance – for Linde Engineering as well. The company possesses all of the technologies needed for natural gas liquefaction and separation. One of its current projects is the construction of Europe’s largest natural gas liquefaction (LNG) plant for the international Snohvit Consortium near Hammerfest, Norway, north of the Arctic Circle. It will make it possible to transport this environmentally friendly energy carrier. The plant should begin operation no later than 2006. The Hammerfest project has an order value of more than 500 million euro and, because of its geographical location alone, poses extreme challenges for the company’s performance and efficiency. In Tuha, China and Kollsnes, Norway, Linde Engineering is currently building other plants of this type as well. Acquisitions in facilities engineering After the fall of the German internal border, Linde Engineering was quick to become involved in the new states. As early as April 1990, Linde acquired a majority stake in the second-largest facilities engineering company in the former East Germany, the previous “Komplette Chemieanlagen Dresden.” This company was renamed “Linde-KCA-Dresden GmbH” and first took over the environmental technology activities of Höllriegelskreuth and 1990 German reunification with the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. then the construction of polyethylene plants. Other acquisitions and takeovers also contributed to the growth of Linde Engineering. In 1990, for example, Linde incorporated Maschinenfabrik Augsburg-Plattling Aktiengesellschaft (MAPAG GmbH) into the VA plant group and opened a new plant in Horgau, Bavaria, in 1996. In 1994, a joint venture was formed in China for the planning and installation of air separation plants, and in 1996 Linde acquired the cryotechnology segment of Gebr. Sulzer AG. A key component of natural gas plants: spiral-wound heat exchangers. 73
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