The calibration gases market is arguably now moving faster than ever. New applications continue emerge every day that require specialty gases in the process. Instrument analysis is required more and more to optimize performance, improve final product quality, and ensure personnel safety in the workplace.
New regulations and product specifications continue to appear, each having their unique precision and accuracy requirements. Limits on impurities in pure gases continue to get smaller and smaller, down to parts-per-trillion levels. Accuracy requirements get tighter and tighter with total allowable error in reported certificate values at less than 1% relative to minor component concentration.
It’s clear this is a sector all about intricacy. With this, to ensure the market is as safe and successful as it can be lab investigations must be supported by propagation of error models that account for all recognized sources of error affecting the values reported. This niche within a niche is a complex one, so to further explore exactly what calibration gases are, how they are used and current trends in the North American market, gasworld sat down with industry experts Raymond Borzio, founder and Managing Partner of Global Calibration Gases, and Lindsey Rosenbery, Specialty Gas Program Director at ILMO Products, to get a first-hand view of the market.
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