The UK carbon dioxide shortage threatening industries from steel to food is spilling over into Europe, one of the world’s largest distributors of the gas has warned.
Nippon Gases, which sold almost $1.5bn of industrial gases on the continent last year, said “other countries in Europe will also suffer shortages” of CO2, estimating that its supplies had fallen 50 per cent across the region.
Soaring natural gas prices have forced closures of fertiliser plants, the UK’s main source of CO2 used to make drinks fizzy, stun animals for slaughter and cool nuclear power plants.
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