Molly Burgess sits down with AWG to discuss the launch of an advanced automated fill plant, and explores how strategic investments in technology can pay off
Standing out in the competitive industrial gas market is no easy feat, but for American Gas and Welding (AWG) the secret lies in reinvesting where it counts. In August, AWG opened a $9.6m fill plant in Georgetown, Kentucky to better serve its customers in the Midwest and the South. It is a transformational investment for the company to make, and the site is now up and running.“It was only a little over a year ago that we started putting together some drawings of what a potential new fill plant could look like for AWG, and now it’s already delivering. The speed of this project was something else,” Paul Scott, Senior Vice-President and Chief Operating Officer of AWG’s South Division, tells gasworld.
Georgetown is not a new location for AWG. The company already had a facility in the city, and a site with a large, unused plot of land next to it. So, after some internal and external discussions, the team agreed that it made perfect sense to invest in an advanced fill plant right there.
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