A period of transition – so often a phrase used in sporting narrative or to describe the passage of time a team or club finds itself in. This is also an apt description of the...
Since the 1980s the Turkish economy has transitioned rapidly from a centrally planned communist marketplace to a dynamic, export-oriented, rapidly modernising entity. Today, it has an industrial gas business to match.
When gasworld last focused on the Italian industrial gases market, the emphasis was on recovery from the global economic recession. The region’s economy had stabilised – later than fellow many fellow European markets – and...
Russia has perhaps been in the headlines for all the wrong reasons this year; political uncertainty in 2014 has certainly already been cited by two of gasworld’s interviewees as a significant challenge to doing business...
The fifth-largest economy by nominal figures, and the second-largest in Europe, France is at the forefront of one of the most mature regional industrial gas markets.
Since the global recession, many world markets with significant ethanol resources, such as the Americas, have consolidated and numerous dormant plants have been sold – in some cases for pennies on the dollar. Some of...
Midway through 2014 and the global industrial gases industry is in the midst of a gradually improving business environment.
As our global analysis explains this month, of the dynamics that the gases industry can control and capitalise on, there is cause for optimism – the energy boom and the headway in healthcare are two...
At the heart of the Western Europe market both economically and in industrial gas circles is Germany. An industrial heartland and home to Tier 1 players The Linde Group and Messer Group, respectively, it is...
