Air Products held a ceremony to dedicate its new liquefied natural gas heat exchanger manufacturing facility in Manatee County, Florida which will double the company's manufacturing capacity of its proprietary and technology. The location for Air Products' Port Manatee manufacturing facility provides ready access to port services and will facilitate global shipping of what is typically already very large equipment. It will also allow Air Products to now manufacture the even larger LNG heat exchangers that are being demanded by the market.

The roughly 300,000-square-foot facility could employ approximately 250 employees in a four year ramp-up period.