Atlas Copco receives breakthrough order from Chinese fertilizer industry

Stockholm, Sweden, April 4, 2006: Atlas Copco has won a breakthrough contract for compressors from a Chinese fertilizer producer. The compressors are for the Qinghai Salt Lake Industry Group Co. Ltd. in Golmud, China and the machines will be used in several of the plant’s process cycles. The order has a value of more than MSEK 65 (MEUR 7).

The Qinghai Salt Lake Industry Group Co. Ltd. is China’s largest producer of potash fertilizer. The Golmud facility also produces ammonia and will, in the future, also produce other chemical products. Atlas Copco will deliver three customized machines to the Qinghai Salt Lake Industry Group: a six-stage compressor for the main air supply, a five-stage compressor used for the hydrogen feed cycle, and a four-stage ammonia compressor. The machines will have to operate in difficult conditions as the plant is located at an altitude of 2 600 meters and near a salt lake. “By winning the contract, Atlas Copco is once again demonstrating its ability to build customized compressors meeting highly specialized customer requirements,” says Bengt Kvarnbäck, President of Atlas Copco’s Compressor Technique business area. The order, won by Atlas Copco’s Gas and Process division, strengthens Atlas Copco’s position in Asia.