The Canadian company Air Products and the Japanese Nippon Steel & Sumikin Pipeline & Engineering Co. (NSPE) announced they have signed an agreement to work together on Japan’s developing hydrogen fuelling infrastructure market. The agreement also discusses the objective of finalizing a long-term marketing and supply relationship agreement between the U.S. and Tokyo, Japan-based companies.
As part of the final agreement to be formalized, Air Products will provide SmartFuel® hydrogen fuelling station technology and the fuelling protocol license, infrastructure engineering and design, while NSPE will provide engineering, construction, and adapt the technology for the Japanese market. NSPE and Air Products Japan will jointly work with customers in the automotive fuelling market.
The Japanese government has been planning to install 100 hydrogen fuelling stations by 2015, and 1,000 by 2025 in the country, aiming at the dissemination of fuel cell vehicles (FCV).