Make or buy. When a requirement for industrial gases is identified, that is the question – whether to own the equipment and operate it to ‘make’ your own gases or contract for an over-the-fence supply...
Everyone in the engineering world knows that pressurised oxygen demands special care as it poses a serious risk of fire. But some of pressurised oxygen’s more complex properties are easily misunderstood or overlooked within increasing...
Both the words ‘standard’ and ‘safe’ have played an important part of my life working with gas cylinder packages over the past several decades. So you can imagine my joy when the Editor requested that...
Since the China government started to tackle the problem of excess capacity in various industries seriously, and implemented supply side reform a few years ago, many production sites have been cracked down and closed.
So often described as the gas of life, oxygen is the most fundamental and recognisable of the air gases. As essential to industry as it is to life, oxygen is among the top five most...
Take 10 minutes out with Steve Tarrant, Bulk and Specialty Gas Manager at Weldstar, as he discusses the company’s role in the gases industry, observations on emerging markets, and the importance of custom solutions.
It has been my experience, over the past 33 years in the gas/welding industry, that innovations do not spring forth from a vacuum. During my industry tenure, we have seen trading, technology and vendor/customer partners...
The rise and fall of economic indicators makes headline news daily, yet the health of the bones of that economy, our nation’s infrastructure, goes largely unreported until a bridge collapses or a dam lets go.
Agility Fuel Solutions is in the business of making alternative fuel storage and delivery systems. With headquarters in Costa Mesa, California, the company is a leading global provider of compressed natural gas (CNG), liquid natural gas...
Situated in North Carolina’s Research Triangle, the largest high technology research and science park in North America, is a busy lab which produces specialty gases for a wide range of customers — Custom Gas Solutions.
