Airgas to build air separation unit production facility in Mebane, N.C.
RADNOR, Pa. — Airgas USA, LLC, an Air Liquide company today announced plans to build a new air separation unit (ASU) in Mebane, N.C. The facility will increase Airgas’ production capabilities in North Carolina’s Research Triangle area while also strengthening its East Coast merchant gases network.
The new facility is expected to be on-stream in 2019 and will produce oxygen, nitrogen and argon for use in customer applications such as metal fabrication, blanketing and purging, combustion, chilling and freezing. In addition, the ASU will produce medical grade oxygen to supply to hospitals, nursing homes and research laboratories as well as food and pharmaceutical grade nitrogen.
The ASU will support the region’s bulk gas market and enhance the company’s gas supply chain, to help ensure long-term reliability of supply for its merchant, packaged and on-site gas customers.
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