5400 boul. Raoul-Duchesne
Bécancour, Québec, G9H 2V1

Tel. : 819 294-6191
Fax : 819 294-6195

Finished	Annual Capacity
Gaseous hydrogen	3500 metric tonnes
Liquid hydrogen	3600 metric tonnes

By-products	Annual Capacity
Carbon dioxide

Raw Materials

Gaseous hydrogen
Natural gas

Investment

70 000 000 $

Employees

15

Area

4 hectares

Background

Established in Bécancour in 1987.

Business Description

Production of liquid and gazeous hydrogen. Liquid hydrogen is obtained by the liquefaction of hydrogen. Gaseous hydrogen is produced using a steamed-metane process.

Market

The hydrogenation or molecular modifiaction of oils, deoxidation, combustion, the manufacture of semiconductors or optic fibre and heat dissipation.

Environmental Protection

The design and construction of the plant were carefully studied in order to eliminate, as much as possible all risks linked to the production, handling and storage of hydrogen.

Contact Persons

Sylvain Houle,
Operations Manager