Praxair, Inc. has further fortified its position in the Eastern US carbon dioxide (CO2) market after signing a long-term contract to purchase by-product CO2 from leading industrial blasting products and services provider, US Nitrogen LLC.
The Tier One player will build, own and operate a new CO2 purification and liquefaction facility in the Eastern region of the US, this time at US Nitrogen’s ammonia plant in Tennessee, US. When the plant is completed, Praxair will own a total of seven sites of this kind throughout Eastern US.
The new facility, which is expected to start up towards the end of 2017, will purify by-product CO2 and produce liquid CO2 for distribution throughout the Southeastern and Mid-Atlantic regions of the US.
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