The three largest markets in the North America region are the US, Canada and Mexico, with these three markets generating around $23bn of industrial gas revenues in 2016, up from just over $22bn in 2015.
US merchant carbon dioxide (CO2) is a key product of the industrial gas business that represents about $1.5bn in sales per year.
One of the region’s thought to be a point of contention in the proposed merger of equals of Praxair, Inc. and Linde AG is South America.
Our last US regional report looked at the West Coast market, the fourth-largest market in the country but one in which strong and healthy growth is forecast over the next five years.
This month’s regional market series focuses on Western Europe, a market in so many ways in the shadow of its higher-growth Eastern counterpart, but far more established and reinvigorated very recently by renewed economic stability...
Industrial gas companies continue to supply large quantities of hydrogen through their onsite pipeline (OSP) business used by oil and gas refineries, basic and specialty chemical manufacturers, and food processors.
In this month’s regional market series, gasworld Business Intelligence focuses on Eastern Europe. The region has experienced better growth than its Western neighbour, chiefly due to the fact many more emerging markets are found in the East.
Announcements of domestic air separation unit and liquefaction builds and expansions for start-up through 2021 indicate that the US air gases business will be steady but not strong. This is still an improvement from earlier...
For the first instalment of gasworld’s 2018 series of US regional market reports, gasworld Business Intelligence focuses on the dynamics and market prospects for the industrial gases business in the West Coast.
A recent report by a leader in global finance, PriceWaterhouseCooper (PwC), suggests that by 2050 India will be the second-largest economy in the world, in terms of GDP based on purchasing power parity.
