As FDA inspection guidelines and expectations undergo significant evolution, Ron Ball explains how to prepare for all eventualities.
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When planning market strategies industrial gas suppliers are constrained by the reality that atmospheric gases cannot be delivered at competitive cost beyond a certain radius, but benefit from the universal availability of the process feedstock...
Make or buy, that is the question. It’s a very broad concept that today politicians, at least in Europe, tend to associate with job losses, de-industrialisation, de-localisation, and loss of taxes and income.
Crude oil currently makes the world go round. It is the most important raw material for the global economy and is synonymous with prosperity and progress. It powers cars, planes and ships, and is the...
When CO2 is the subject of discussion, outside of those in the gas trade, it is usually associated with greenhouse gases, a gas exhaled endlessly, and soft drinks. As those in the gas industry know...
Unlike many other chemical manufacturing processes, the manufacture of atmospheric gases (oxygen, nitrogen and argon) produces virtually no harmful or undesirable by-products at all.
If you’re exporting goods from the US you must be fully aware of export laws to avoid hefty fines or even time behind bars, cautions Tom Vreeland.
When delving into the world of mergers and acqusitions (M&A) as applied to the industrial gases industry, it’s worth first understanding the huge capital cost and dynamics that comprise the industry itself.
Over 90 years ago, Christian Nielsen established the Danish company Strandmøllen A/S, a name that has now become synonymous with the gases industry in Scandinavia.
