Praxair Starts Up New Syngas Plant in Geismar, Louisiana
February 18 2019 - 8:30AM
Business Wire
Praxair, Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Linde plc (NYSE:LIN;
FWB:LIN), has announced the completion of a major investment
project at its Geismar, Louisiana facility, bringing a new plant
online that will increase carbon monoxide supply to customers in
the Geismar area.
The plant incorporates a new carbon monoxide purification train
with more than 13 million cubic feet per day of capacity. This
facility is part of a much larger investment that Praxair has
embarked upon in Louisiana and the US Gulf Coast and leverages
proprietary technologies to improve the overall efficiency of the
site and maintain its long-term reliability and
competitiveness.
“Praxair has been an integral part of the Geismar chemical
industry for over 50 years and with this latest investment, we are
demonstrating our commitment to remaining a reliable and efficient
source of industrial gases in the region well into the future,”
said Dan Yankowski, Praxair’s president of Global Hydrogen.
Carbon monoxide is essential for the manufacture of a wide array
of products, such as polyurethane precursors and other specialty
chemicals. Hydrogen, carbon monoxide and other gas products
required by the local chemical and refining industries were first
produced at this site in the early 1970’s. Over the years the site
has been expanded and more recently, the Geismar facility has been
integrated into a 90-mile pipeline network stretching from Baton
Rouge to St. Charles. This latest investment further strengthens
Praxair’s ability to reliably serve the increased demand from
customers, ranging from world scale refineries to technology
leading biofuel companies.
About Praxair
Praxair, Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Linde plc, is a
leading industrial gas company in North and South America and one
of the largest worldwide. Praxair produces, sells and distributes
atmospheric, process and specialty gases, and high-performance
surface coatings. Our products, services and technologies are
making our planet more productive by bringing efficiency and
environmental benefits to a wide variety of industries, including
aerospace, chemicals, food and beverage, electronics, energy,
healthcare, manufacturing, primary metals and many others. For more
information about the company, please visit our website at
www.praxair.com.
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