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Airgas, Inc. Completes First Phase of Liquid Carbon Dioxide and Dry Ice Manufacturing Facility at Honeywell's Hopewell, Va. Plant.

Publication: Business Wire
Publication Date: 16-JAN-03 		Format: Online - approximately 852 words
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

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RADNOR, Pa.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 16, 2003

Airgas, Inc. (NYSE: ARG) today announced that it has completed the first phase of its new liquid carbon dioxide and dry ice manufacturing plant at the Honeywell (NYSE: HON) Hopewell, Virginia site. The new Airgas plant has begun drawing on the gaseous carbon dioxide feed stream from Honeywell's Caprolactam production complex for delivery to liquid carbon dioxide customers in the Middle Atlantic region.

The dry ice production plant at Hopewell will be completed by May, enabling Airgas to expand its dry ice market reach into Delaware, Maryland and Virginia. Airgas expects to transfer equipment and personnel from a smaller plant in Richmond, Virginia beginning in April and expects production of dry ice to begin in May.

"Our liquid carbon...

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