Features

Summer 2014 saw In Focus… analyse the trends in the cylinder filling sector and found automation to be the driving force in this business of late.

The Globally Harmonised System of Classification and labelling of Chemicals (GHS) is certainly the most significant and comprehensive change in labelling requirements to affect both the cryogenic and compressed gas industry in recent memory.

The Eurozone is in crisis – again. Or at least it is until the latest economic recovery plan from the European Central Bank (ECB) has been declared a success.

Industry today is under unprecedented pressure to continually improve efficiencies and contain costs, while maintaining high levels of safety.

Inspecting and testing high pressure cylinders and tubes on board a ship as it crossed the Atlantic was the latest assignment for Chesterfield Special Cylinders’ (CSC) global Integrity Management team, which prides itself on saving...

The conception and subsequent production of gas filling plants are by no means a simple business. There are a lot of ‘low-level’ usages (single cylinder filling) for which a standard-solution is enough, but larger and...

Product Safety is clearly something that concerns everyone in the industrial gases business. It’s the very glue that holds all the various components of our business together – providing the strength to perform and the...

Gases are ‘slippery’ and they behave with ‘Brownian motion’ – that is, they fill every corner of every space and try to go everywhere. Gases kept within a container or gas supply system are constantly...

MES Aluminium is a unique company located in the industrial region of Gebze in Turkey, specialised in producing precise and high technology aluminium alloy products for various industries and applications.

Take 10 minutes out with Turgay Karacalar, Vice-Chairman of Karbonsan, who introduces us to the company’s operations, the Turkish industrial gases business, and the company’s ongoing expansion.