Messer and the Vietnamese Hoa Phat Group have signed a contract to build a production unit for industrial gases in northern Vietnam on 25 October. Messer will invest around EUR 13 million in the largest and most modern air separator and gas liquefier in Vietnam. The term of the contract for supplying the air gases oxygen, nitrogen and argon is 25 years. When production begins, 16,500 standard cubic meters of oxygen per hour will flow through a pipeline into the new steel works of the Hoa Phat Group in the Hai Duong province.