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Praxair to boost gases for space launch market

by Michael McCoy
November 8, 2018 | A version of this story appeared in Volume 96, Issue 45

 

A photo of a Delta IV rocket launching.
Credit: Kennedy Space Center
Boeing's Delta IV is one of the rockets that launches from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

The industrial gas firm Praxair, now a part of Linde, will double capacity at its air separation plant in Mims, Fla. The firm says the project is in response to growing demand from space industry customers, which launch from the nearby Kennedy Space Center, as well as from local industries such as health care and food processing. Praxair expects to complete the project by the end of 2019.

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