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...
As reported in last month’s issue of gasworld magazine, the slide of the brent crude oil price (per barrel) continues to dominate the news headlines of the new year.
Specialty gas consumption has grown significantly in recent times and continues to build momentum in many countries, led by the strong and established North American market, where the largest demand is seen, and buoyed by...
Despite intensive and ever enlarging demand, driven in particular by developing economies, the future of the refrigerant gases sector is precariously balanced between efficacy and environmental impact.
In a sub-sector of industrial gases as broad as gas handling, it would be an impossible feat to detail where the trends are for each of the varied components – like valves, manifolds, regulators, high...
The fourth in the now well established CPVS series was held in Salt Lake City, Utah (US) during December 2014. The cheery Christmas setting made for an ideal backdrop to welcome delegates from all six...
The 2015 Annual Conference of the British Compressed Gases Association (BCGA) will once more put the UK gases business in the spotlight, both in terms of market trends and industry safety.
For the last three years helium, or rather the lack of it, has dominated the headlines. With concern at this predicament and the adverse impact it would have on the world, it was difficult to...
