This year SEMATECH (www.sematech.org), the international consortium of leading semiconductor device, equipment, and materials manufacturers, observes its 25th anniversary. SEMATECH’s members and partners, who represent about half of the world’s semiconductor production, work to reduce the time from innovation to manufacturing through...
More than 30,000 professionals in the global technology industry are expected to descend on the Moscone Center in San Francisco this July 10–12 for the 4th annual combined SEMICON West/Intersolar North America. SEMI PV Group is...
Want to get involved in welding on a global level? Then you should know about a major international event in the world of welding that will be coming to the United States this summer. The International Institute of Welding (IIW)...
The carbon dioxide (CO2) industry is a complex one. Some companies within the industry both produce and distribute CO2, others buy crude and process it, while others are strictly distributors. The CO2 itself is delivered as crude, gas, liquid, and...
Cheap natural gas is a big topic of discussion, particularly in the US. Serious consideration is being given to natural gas as a transportation fuel. GE (www.ge.com) and Chesapeake Energy Corporation (www.chk.com), two heavyweights in the energy arena, recently announced plans...
According to recent academic and government agency studies, the United States has at least a 100-year domestic supply of natural gas. Liberating that gas is now economically possible thanks in part to continued developments with hydraulic fracturing, aka, “fracking.” In the...
The premier event for gas industry professionals, the Gastech Conference and Exhibition, will celebrate its 26th year at the award-winning ExCeL Conference & Exhibition Centre in London’s Docklands, October 8–11.
The 14th Annual China International Exhibition on Gases Technology, Equipment, and Application (IG, China 2012) and the 4th Annual China International Exhibition on NGV, Engines, Gas Refueling Stations, and LNG (NG, China 2012) will take place this year in Nanjing at...
We all know that in the industrial gas business, safety is an issue of utmost importance and most distributors have a safety program. In working with distributors on improving their businesses, however, I have found that while a...
Bing Crosby was famously dreaming of a white Christmas, and so were many Americans this snowless holiday season [December 2011]. But a review of historical documents, archival photographs, and press clippings shows that GE scientists led by Nobel Prize winner Irving...
