North Ryde, Australia. 17 March 2025 Leading gas and engineering company BOC, a Linde company, has begun supplying carbon dioxide (CO2) to the market from the region’s largest merchant carbon dioxide processing facility in Longford, Victoria.

Construction of the new facility was completed in late 2024 with the commissioning phase continuing throughout January and February. The facility, which can produce more than 60,000 tonnes of beverage-grade liquid CO2 annually, will now support a raft of Australian industries including medical, food processing, beverage, hospitality, and manufacturing.

Theo Martin, Managing Director of Linde South Pacific and Head of BOC, said CO2 from the new facility would make an immediate positive impact on Australia’s CO2 production capacity and has the ability to back up the New Zealand market.

"We are excited by the opportunity our new CO2 processing facility in Longford presents for both our business and our customers. Capable of producing such a large amount of beverage-grade CO2 annually, this plant significantly increases BOC’s national CO2 production capacity and will improve reliability of supply to our customers, particularly those on the east coast of Australia and beyond.”

The Longford CO2 processing facility features the latest Linde technologies and quality control processes to provide the highest standard of CO2.

The new facility is underpinned by a long-term supply agreement with the Gippsland Basin Joint Venture (GBJV), a 50-50 joint venture between Esso Australia Resources Pty Ltd (Esso) and Woodside Energy Pty Ltd. Under the agreement, GBJV will capture and send CO2 from its Longford Gas Conditioning Plant directly to BOC's new facility.

About BOC:
BOC Australia, a Linde company, supplies compressed and bulk gases, chemicals and equipment across the South Pacific region. Linde is a leading global industrial gases and engineering company with 2023 sales of US$33 billion. We live our mission of making our world more productive every day by providing high-quality solutions, technologies and services which are making our customers more successful and helping to sustain, decarbonize and protect our planet.

The company serves a variety of end markets such as chemicals & energy, food & beverage, electronics, healthcare, manufacturing, metals and mining. Linde's industrial gases and technologies are used in countless applications including production of clean hydrogen and carbon capture systems critical to the energy transition, life-saving medical oxygen and high-purity & specialty gases for electronics. Linde also delivers state-of-the-art gas processing solutions to support customer expansion, efficiency improvements and emissions reductions.

For more information about the company and its products and services, please visit www.linde.com.