Air Products announced the signing of a long-term agreement for the production of liquid CO(2) with Big River Resources Boyceville, LLC. Air Products will operate a facility to produce 250 tons per day of liquid CO(2) at Big River Resources' established ethanol plant in Boyceville, Wisconsin. Air Products will market food and beverage-grade liquid CO(2) from the plant, which is expected to begin production in early 2014.

Air Products has 13 liquid CO(2) production plants in the U.S., and had recently announced another planned liquid CO2 agreement and facility with 400 tpd of production in Iowa. Liquid CO(2), which Air Products already offers in its other geographic regions around the world, is an important product in markets Air Products currently serves with other merchant industrial gases including for food, beverage, chemical, pharmaceutical, oilfield services, and metals fabrication applications.