Welcome to Airgases Projects, a supplier of choice for industrial gas plants with associated technical solutions and engineering services. The company provides to its customer total solutions right from conceptual design to EPC (Engineering, Procurement &Construction) services and then through commissioning.. The company derives its strength from its senior management team which has best technical knowhow in the industry.That coupled within house fabrication facility, sourcing from competitive global vendors & innovative business models, enables it to provide competitive solutions to its customers meeting international quality and safety standards. The company operates on the execution philosophy of “think global” but “act local”.Itsbusiness strategy is built around offering local competitive solutions on the basis of best available technology in the world. It has cemented partnership with some of most reputed technology providers in the world and with their help it will localize to the maximum extent without compromising the quality, safety and efficiency.Airgases projects uses innovative business models to offer competitive solution to its customers to meet different requirements.

Airgases Projects offers to its customer various plants& systemsas listed below as well as equipmentassociated to these

  • Cryogenic Nitrogen Generators
  • Cryogenic Air Separation Units
  • Pressure swing Adsorption plants
  • Membrane plants
  • Cryogenic storage & distribution system
  • Gas storage & distribution system
  • Utility supply systems
  • Oxygen control stations

In addition it offers to its customer expert technical services related to

  • Plant up gradation, debottlenecking, modernisation and expansion
  • Plant production improvement
  • Improve operational efficiency including automation
  • Improve energy efficiency and reduction in cost of production

Airgases Projects also provides several other services such as providing operation & maintenance services, supplying gas molecules through gas supply scheme, supply of spare parts, representation services for reputed manufacturers and recruitment & training services.

The customer base for our products and services includes all core sector industries in metals, petroleum refining, petrochemicals, chemicals, pharmaceutical, electronics, waste water treatment, Food, glass, energy and Industrial gases manufacturing.

Vision

Airgases Projects aspires to provide superior quality products & services to its customers at competitive prices meeting international safety standards through innovation and high degree of commitment from its employees.

Our vision is to utilise extensive experience of our management team to deliver tangible business results to our customers by providing cost competitive solutions through partnership with global technology providers and innovative business models. We strive to build long-term relationships with our customers based on mutual trust and respect. All our projects follow a stringent quality assurance plan which allows us guaranteeing the plants for long-term trouble-free operation and lowest total cost of ownership. .

Key business policies

The business at Airgases Projects is guided by basic policies as under

  • Maintain highest standards of business ethics and conduct business at all times within the laws of the countries in which we do business
  • Customer will be purpose of existence and centre of all our activities
  • Focus on partnering with best global technology providers
  • Encourage initiatives, innovation, recognise individual contribution and treat all employees with respect and fairness
  • Continuous skill development of its team on-going basis
  • Safety as an integral part of all our operations
  • Striving for excellence with highest standards of professionalism and technical competence.
  • Aggressively pursue any new business opportunities, and commit resources for success
  • Develop partnership with key vendors with win-win approach

 

Engineering capabilities

Process & conceptual design

The core competence of Process design group at Airgases Projects is to provide most competitive process plant solution to a given requirement specified by the customer. One of mandate of this group is to select and assimilate the basic process knowhow provided by technology provider which will enable Airgases Projects to deliver plants which meets or exceeds customer's requirements while ensuring delivery on-time and as per contract specification.

The process group is headed by one of most experienced person today in India in process design of Air Separation plants. He is assisted by highly skilled process engineers and control engineers which applies its specialized knowledge of the gases industry to meet process challenges with customized solutions.Our team continues to work for new innovative solutions to create value for our customers. The notable activities undertaken by the group includes

  • Assimilate / design process cycle
  • Generating PFD's and P&ID's
  • Process optimisation
  • Energy and mass balance calculations
  • Process design of Distillation columns & heat exchangers
  • Process specification of all process equipment
  • Process safety review

 

Detail engineering

The detailed engineering group is responsible to convert basic process design of the plant in to a well-engineered plant in a cost competitive manner meeting all requirements set by customer and respective agreed design codes. This group ensures that the detail design of plant is carried out in accordance of technical specification set by technology provider, technical specifications stipulated by customer or PMC as the case may be as well as requirements set by major equipment suppliers. The group is mandated to review all design documentation provided by vendors to ensure it meets requirements set by basic technology provider as well as technical specifications stipulated by the customer.

The detail engineering group is led by one of most experienced person in India in detailed design of Air Separation plants assisted by skilled equipment design engineers, piping design engineers, rotating machine specialists, E&I engineers and control engineers. The team will ensure all inter discipline co-ordination as required is undertaken.

The team applies its specialized knowledge of the industrial gas and process industry to meet unique challenges with customized solutions with guiding principle to provide value to its customers. The activities undertaken by the group includes

Equipment design

  • Mechanical design of process vessels & heat exchangers
  • Mechanical design of flat bottom storage tanks
  • Structural design of cold boxes
  • Wind load & Seismic analysis

Piping design

  • Plant layout & 3D modelling
  • Piping design - Process & utility piping
  • Stress analysis
  • Isometrics & bill of materials

Electrical & Instrumentation design

  • Load calculations and voltage drop calculations
  • Design of Single line diagrams
  • Design of switchgear & starting devices
  • DCS/PLC system specification
  • Application software for DCS/PLC
  • Field instrument Specifications
  • Analyzers specifications
  • Cable sizing & routing design
  • Illumination & Earthing design
  • Installation drawings

The 3D mechanical design modeling software provides functional packaging, piping flexibility and static/dynamic analysis, which produces very efficient designed plants. Each of our plant is built to the highest standards of reliability and efficiency.

Our state-of-the-art process simulation software insures optimized plant performance design, maximizes overall plant efficiency, and improves process design flexibility. The Control system includes the operator's console, the control logic equipment and the instrumentation. The major components include the PC and/or PLC control and a functional, friendly HMI design that allows for unattended and remote monitored operation of the plant.

The team uses various modern software in undertaking the design and engineering work such as 3D modeling, Hysys, AutoCAD, PVElite and Caesar etc.

 

Manufacturing facilities

One of key driver to deliver plant at competitive pricing from Airgases Projects is its own in-house manufacturing facility which operates under the name KaakateeyaFabs. This facility is known for delivering high quality products at very competitive cost base. It is a reasonable size high quality manufacturing facility having more than 38 years of experience out of which more than 20 years in manufacturing of specialised cryogenic equipment besides power plant equipment and other equipment. The manufacturing of all process equipment/skids required by Airgases Projects is undertaken by this unit situated at a prime location in the port city of Vishakapattanam.

An overview of facilities available at KaakateeyaFabs is described below :

Footprint

The total facility is spread over an area of 70,000sqft with most of that covered by hard standing flooring. Currently the facility has around 7000 sqft area covered shed and around 1300 sqft for office area.

Production Facilities

This manufacturing facility is equipped with the latest design fabrication equipment, welding machines, machining equipment and required handling facilities. A portable temporary clean room can be created whenever required. The skills of fabrication team includes all kind of welding, be it MIG, TIG, submerged-arc or plasma-arc welding. The high quality welding is a specialty of KaakateyaFabs team which is capable of welding various materials including CS,SS, Aluminium, copper and monel etc. The team has excellent track record in assembly of equipment along with pipework. The unit is located in big industrial estate and thereby can make use of facilities available with other nearby fabrication units and other industries for work such as sheet metal, instrumentation and electrical work required to be done on process skids. The production related equipment available at Kaakateeya includes.

TIG/MIG Welding Machines
Plate Bending Machines( capable to roll upto 3mt wide plates)
Rotators(Upto 100 MT)
Submerged Arc Welding Equipment
Plasma Cutting Equipment
Heat Treatment Facilities
Vacuum Pumps
Grinding and other Misc Equipment

The fabrication team keeps abreast of the emerging trends, new technologies, latest government regulations, and other issues which impact the market sectors we serve. We continually consult with our customers to ensure that they are able to benefit from the "best operating practice trends" with regard to fabricated equipment and field services.

Inspection Facilities

All equipment/ skids manufactured at Kaakateya are fabricated in accordance with a quality assurance plan agreed with the customer and in line with requirements of design code considered. Most of equipment manufactured follows requirement specified in ASME Section VIII, Div 1 and ASME B31.3. Kaakteeya has following in-house inspection and test facilities

Radiography Inspection
Ultrasonic Test Equipment
MPI Facility
Thickness Gauges
Hydraulic / Pneumatic Test Facilities
Helium leak detection facilities

Other Facilities

The facility has required material handling facilities including gantry cranes and mobile cranes. Higher capacity cranes are hired as needed and the same is easily available nearby. This significantly reduces operating overhead cost of the company. The facility has its own grit blasting facility, pickling facility and cleaning facilities to oxygen standards.

The unit is approved by Lloyds Register/Bureau Veritas/Engineers India Ltd/ IBR/PESO (formerly CCOE)/TCE and several others for manufacture of pressure vessels and other process equipment.

Please visit http://www.kaakateeyafabs.com to know more about our facilities and references,

 

Collaborations

The Mantra for success at Airgases Projects is centred around it ability to build strong partnership. Besides partnership with its own motivated employees, the company has built strong strategic partnership with several Technology providers by signing collaborations.

Airgases Projects strives to build strong partnership with various technology providers for a win-win position for both sides. Airgases Projects is greatly benefited by getting access to latest cutting edge technology at relatively economical costs and technology provider gets access to Indian market at very low cost because of competitive cost base of Airgases Projects coupled with the deep market knowledge & contacts the senior management team of Airgases Projects with customers and project management consultants ( PMC’s). These technology providers otherwise have very limited success due to not being competitive and also lack of deep market knowledge and personal contacts. In addition the technology providers can use Airgases Projects for the other geographies outside India.

Airgases Projects has technical tie up / collaboration agreement with some top notch global technology providers in different areas of its operations including followings

  • Sumitomo Seika Chemicals Japan for VPSA Oxygen plants& Hydrogen plants–Airgases Projects has just supplied a 146 tpd VPSA Plant to HMEL for Bathinda refinery ( order value of around Rs 42 Crores)
  • Costain UK for high purity nitrogen generators
  • SIAD MacchineImpianti S.p.A, Italy for Cryogenic ASU - Airgases Projects has just supplied a 75 tons merchant liquid ASU to a private gas company ( Order value exceeding Rs 25 Crores)
  • KaifengHuanghe Air Separation Group Co. China for Cryogenic ASU
  • Hangzhou Zhongtai Cryogenic Technology Corporation China for Brazed Aluminum heat exchangers & cryogenic cold boxes
  • Oxymat, Denmark for Medical Oxygen Plants& PSA Nitrogen Plants - Airgases Projects have supplied 2 plants which are in operation for over more than one year

Besides above Airgases Projects makes technical tie up with several other top notch global companies on case to case basis. The company achieved sales of INR 172 Million in financial year 2016-17 and is looking towards exponential growth in near future

Careers

Airgases Projects is committed looking for qualified and motivated individuals to join its team. If you have the experience in field related to our area of operations and a strong desire to join a fast-growing company, we would love to hear from you. We would also like you to join our team if you are retired and wish to do part time work or work on flexi timing or take specific assignments. Please send your current resume to info@airgasesprojects.com

We are currently looking for applicants for fresh graduate engineer trainees ( GET) in:

• Mechanical Engineering
• Electrical Engineering
• Chemical Engineering

Our GET program is geared toward upcoming and recent graduates and offers them an exciting career prospects an evaluation position. We are seeking Graduates who have completed their education as of 2014 with a minimum of a Bachelor’s degree in Chemical, Mechanical or Electrical Engineering.

Our GET program for new recruits is designed on a one year rotational training and on job evaluation system within our organization. The program includes hands-on teaming within our process design, detailed engineering and project management functions. Our programs seek to identify the employee potential by enabling the engineering building blocks learned in the class room and build environment specific to industrial gas plants. The selected applicants will work on active projects with the guidance and mentoring of our distinguished senior management team.

Airgases Projects is committed to provide an exciting career path to its motivated employees.