Gases

The industrial gases industry could not be called a glamorous industry by any stretch of the imagination. It is safe to say workplace discussions around the water cooler are more apt to fall on innovative hydrogen fuel cells rather than...

CryoGas International (CryoGas): Alan, thank you for agreeing to discuss Linde’s Merchant and Packaged Gas Business with us. Can you tell us what your business unit includes and its functions within Linde’s worldwide industrial gas markets and regions. Alan Watkins (Watkins): First,...

There are several twists and turns in the road to getting installation of components for vacuum jacketed applications “right.” 

The Specialty Gases segment is one of the few markets that has been resilient in this recession and represents an excellent growth path for the independent gas distributor. Critical to success in this marketplace is a professional and knowledgeable specialty gas...

Vacuum insulated products, cryogenic systems, biological storage systems, and related software and monitoring devices are invaluable to biotechnology research applications such as gene therapy, oncology, immunology, and stem cell research; they are therefore playing an increasingly large role in healthcare markets.

THE LIFE SCIENCES MARKET  For a gas supplier that has customarily serviced industrial accounts such as welding shops, providing gases and related equipment to the Life Sciences may require a whole new business plan. 

Manufacturing and selling highpurity specialty gases requires complex resources and represents a significant investment for industrial gas distributors.

Made possible by ever-changing and emerging technologies, our industry is constantly looking for ways to create innovative products based on new materials and fresh ways of thinking.

As the economy slows down so does the demand for rare gases. During the last 12 months demand for xenon (Xe) declined almost 40 percent and demand for krypton (Kr) fell by about 30 percent.