Airgas USA, a distributor of specialty gases, will move forward with plans to build a new air separation unit in Mebane, N.C., that local officials have previously estimated will cost $47 million and create 35 jobs.
Airgas, which is based in Radnor, Pa., announced that the facility will increase the company’s production capabilities in the Research Triangle area of North Carolina while also strengthening its East Coast merchant gases network, writes Lloyd Whittington for Triad Business Journal.
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Airgas expects to bring the facility online in 2019 and said it will produce oxygen, nitrogen and argon for use in customer applications such as metal fabrication, blanketing and purging, combustion, chilling and freezing. The facility also will produce medical grade oxygen to supply to hospitals, nursing homes and research laboratories as well as food and pharmaceutical grade nitrogen.
Airgas said the facility will support the region’s bulk gas market and enhance its gas supply chain to help ensure long-term reliability of supply for its merchant, packaged and on-site gas customers.
Under terms of the incentives that were approved, Airgas is expected to create at least 35 jobs paying an average salary of $79,286 at the facility, which was projected to open by December 2019.
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