A new state of the art facility is opening in Scott County.

It's specialty producing gases.

American Welding and Gas says it searched multiple sites to find the perfect spot for its new fill plant, only to find it near one of their facilities in Georgetown on Wednesday.

They cut the ribbon on the 9.6 million plant in Georgetown.

This is a historical event for AWG American Welding and Gas.

It's been a long project coming.

We certainly have a lot of growth and Kentucky and that growth really fueled the need for more space.

Along with that, we needed a very safe environment for our teammates that produce the medical and industrial gases here in central Kentucky.

They're used in manufacturing.

They're used in cutting fabrication.

We also are able to produce pure gas for some spec labs.

Helium, argon, nitrogen, atmospheric gases, and obviously the oxygen that are going to regional hospitals around for for patients and families within central Kentucky.

We'll also have propane for both industrial use.

Automation, robotics, cutting tables, all those use gases.

We look at multiple locations, multiple counties.

This is a location in Georgetown that we have been in for probably the past 15 years.

And we had some space underneath our feet.

Our facility here is it's a little over 20,000 square feet facility will be producing, as I said, industrial gases, medical gases.

Around central Kentucky.

These gases actually will touch other states around us, from Indiana, Ohio, West Virginia, Tennessee, and even travel into the into the Carolinas.

We try to make things easier for our for our teammates to do their jobs.

We try to make it easier for our customers to do business with us.

So with the product that comes in, it comes in in a liquid form.

So your oxygen, your nitrogen.

Now, this gives us the ability for to safely field those product, those products in a very safe manner to where it's less physical handling for our teammates in it that are actually in here doing the filling of the gas.

Historically, plants have been manual, which means all the equipment you see here today is all automated.

So it's just it's much safer for our people.

We can produce a lot more carbon like.

This facility will be producing and distributing about 40,000 cylinders a month by early October.

So it's a flagship facility for us.

It will be for years, if not decades.

So it's it's really exciting for all of us to be here.

American Welding and Gas says when it's fully operational, it will have 45 employees at the facility.