East Coast Oxygen, a 50/50 production joint venture between Linde North America and Air Products, has expanded the production capacity of its facility in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania and improved its service capability as a result.
The new liquefaction unit, which was recently commissioned, boosts production capacity by almost 600 tonnes per day and makes the plant one of the largest liquefied nitrogen, oxygen and argon gases production sites in the US.
Gases produced at the Bethlehem plant are trucked to merchant customers throughout the northeastern US for use in applications such as food chilling and freezing, chemical production and metals manufacturing.
“This location already provided us with easy access to customers throughout the region. This expansion gives us a cost effective means of improving our ability to supply a growing customer base and to strengthen our East Coast supply network, which runs from Maine to Georgia,” said Pat Murphy, President of Linde North America.
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