Industrial gas company to locate operations to Charleston

Linde, Inc. officials announced the company will build, own and operate a new facility for the supply of industrial gases along the I-75 corridor near Charleston. The company will invest more than $70 million and create 18 new jobs, most of which will be in logistics. The project comprises of a new air separation unit that will produce liquid oxygen, nitrogen and argon serving various industries in the Knoxville, Chattanooga, and Nashville areas of Tennessee, as well as in northern Alabama and Georgia.