News from AGA Region Europe North

AGA Gas AB and Lantmännen Agroetanol AB have signed a Letter of Intent regarding the construction of a carbon dioxide factory that utilises and purifies carbon dioxide. The carbon dioxide factory is to be built on the premises of Lantmännen Agroetanol on Händelö in Norrköping, which takes advantage of the infrastructure within the area with the proximity to the railway, harbour and the European highway. The carbon dioxide factory will be put into operation during the autumn 2013.

The highlights of the Linde stand at Anuga FoodTec 27-30 March this year will be end-to-end freshness concepts from the manufacturer to the final consumer. These revolve around the intelligent use of food gases for freezing, packaging and transport refrigeration.

AGA Gas AB and Sandvik have signed a long-term contract for hydrogen gas supply to several of Sandvik’s production units in Sweden.

A new freezer is launched on the food market. The CRYOLINE®XF is a high performance spiral freezer that delivers twice the heat transfer rate of standard cryogenic spiral freezers, making it twice as powerful.

AGA announced an agreement with Lappeenranta University of Technology (LUT) for the installation of a major central gas supply system at the University’s recently renovated multi-story research laboratory of chemical engineering and separation technology.

PROSAVER® regulator is a newly developed gas cylinder regulator which regulates the cylinder pressure to a much more steady and stable gas flow. In the long run this means less gas consumption and higher quality in the welding process.

AGA will be there and present our products and services for the Offshore Industry.

Meeting the rising demand for energy worldwide while simultaneously reducing emissions will pose a huge challenge over the coming years. Resource conservation and climate protection are also growing in importance in the gas industry.

AGA will be there and present new, exciting products. Book the dates 16-19. August and plan a visit already now.

On Friday 27 May AGA´s first LNG (liquefied natural gas) terminal was officially opened in Nynäshamn, Sweden.

AGA’s facility for liquefied natural gas (LNG) will be inaugurated outside Nynäshamn, Sweden on 27 May. The first in the Baltic Sea region, the terminal is AGA’s largest venture ever. Natural gas can replace oil in industrial processes and as a fuel for land and sea-based transport, reducing emissions of carbon dioxide, nitrogen dioxide, sulphur oxide and particles.

Balloons filled with helium are part of May Day celebrations. However, you should leave the helium inside the balloons and not inhale it, not even as a joke. Recreational inhaling of gases is very dangerous.

In the beginning of 2010 AGA published new websites for the Northern Europe region. In addition to the site www.aga.com the local sites of Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Iceland, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, and Sweden were launched.

Regulation (EC) No 1272/2008 on classification, labelling and packaging (CLP) of substances and mixtures) comes into effect on 1 st of December 2010 for substances and 1.6.2015 for mixtures. This regulation implementation means the following for our operations:

NEMO® PLUS ready-to-use cylinder can be summed up in four key qualities: Safety, performance, precision and convenience. With the new integrated regulator your operators can work faster and more efficiently.

The catalogue is mainly used in the manufacturing and process industries. The catalogue is AGA’s standardised catalogue for the Nordic and Baltic countries, and enables the customers to choose tailor-made products for specific applications.

In the 2000s, Tampere decided to centralise its fragmented food services and improve the competitiveness of its operations. It was decided to centralise home service meal preparation into one location, and a new, functional kitchen was designed and built for the purpose.

Oy AGA Ab has delivered Finland’s first cold storage based on cryogenic vapour freezing to the Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland (FIMM). A part of Finland’s most important national collections of biological samples will be stored in this biobank.

Logistiikan professori Markku Kuula käytti AGAa esimerkkiyrityksenä virkaanastujaisesityksessään.

AGA in Norway, Finland and Sweden conducted a survey in each country about people’s attitudes towards grilling, knowledge about propane and safety.

The function of so-called gas savers is to reduce or eliminate the puff of gas that always occurs when you start MAG-welding. The puff of gas is an unnecessary loss of gas, because it occurs at much higher gas flow rate than normally used. The question is - are today's gas savers really effective – how much can you “save” by using them?

This winter is tough for fish. The reason is not the abrupt growth in the number of fishermen, but the enclosed water bodies under the thick layer of ice, where fish suffer from oxygen deficiency.

Carbon capture technology is being developed with strong EU support.

Extreme cold winter has led to a considerable increase in propane sales.

AGA parent company, The Linde Group, signed an agreement to supply cryogenic gases – liquid helium and nitrogen – and other specialty gases, including helium, carbon monoxide and medical grade oxygen, to an international scientific consortium co-ordinated by the Jülich Research Centre, Germany. The gases will be used in an important atmospheric research project to assess the effects of climate change on the ozone layer. The gases will be supplied by Linde’s Swedish subsidiary, AGA.

AGA has launched new internet sites for Finland, Norway and Sweden.

AQVIA is a new line of high-quality sparkling water products made by AGA.

AGA's current standard rack for storage and transportation of gas cylinders are not built or approved to use as lifting device, i.e., lifting should not be done by using the rack. Along with the filled cylinders the rack weight can be as much as 1000 kg and improper handling can cause accidents

AGA launch an updated and more complete hardware program, as a part of our trademark LASERLINE®

New updated hardware program for laser installations

Ten days to cast AGA’s LNG tank in Sweden - the first of its kind around the Baltic Sea