Company/Division name | Airgas Merchant Gases |
Parent company | Air Liquide |
Type of work | Manufacturing |
If manufacturing, is the company a contract manufacturer? | Yes |
Reshoring category: | Foreign Direct Investment |
Year reshoring announced: | 2014 |
Year reshoring implemented or to be implemented: | 2017 |
Country(ies) from which reshored: | France |
City reshored to: | Calvert City |
State(s) reshored to: | KY |
If relevant, work nearshored to: | - |
Industry(ies): | Chemicals |
Product(s) reshored | liquid oxygen, nitrogen, argon, hydrogen |
What non-domestic negative factors made offshoring less attractive? | Other, chem update |
What domestic positive factors made reshoring more attractive? | Customer responsiveness improvement, Eco-system synergies, Proximity to customers/market |