Airgas in deal for use of hydrogen-cell power
Airgas Inc. announced that it has signed an agreement to market and service hydrogen fuel cells made by Nuvera Fuel Cells Inc.
Airgas Inc. announced that it has signed an agreement to market and service hydrogen fuel cells made by Nuvera Fuel Cells Inc.
Nuvera, which has offices in Billerica, Mass., and Milan, Italy, would make the fuel cell system in such uses as forklifts.
Radnor-based Airgas, an industrial-gas company, will install the hydrogen cells and then continue servicing them, said company spokesman Jay Worley.
"We're not banking on this taking over the forklift industry," Worley said, but he said the benefits included having the vehicles run longer and lowering the greenhouse footprint for large fleet users.
No financial projections were available, Worley said, but the project is that, by 2014, about 7,000 forklifts, less than 1 percent of the total forklift trucks in use today, would be running on hydrogen cells.