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What came first, the chicken or the egg? It is a question that has troubled scientists and ancient philosophers for quite some time, and continues to do so.

As one of the first cryogenic service providers to enter the LNG industry, it’s well over a decade since Herose started supplying valves for LNG applications.

Like many of its fellow Japanese industrial gas majors, Iwatani Corporation heads into 2014 driven by diversification. The company has high ambitions and, perhaps, even higher challenges ahead.

LNG is held aloft as the clean fuel of the future, the stepping stone to diversification, as well as being cited as the stimulus for a North American energy revival. It is, quite simply, one...

Natural gas is nothing new, but in recent years new sources combined with new methods and technologies for extraction and processing have created new opportunities and enhanced the long-term viability of natural gas as a...

Operating a seagoing vessel is expensive and, according to international accountant Moore Stephens, which recently carried out a survey of vessel operating costs, rising fuel costs and ever-tighter regulations to limit sulfur emissions mean that...

November (2013) saw Iwatani Corporation unveil its latest three-year mid-term business plan, to run through until fiscal year 2015. Titled ‘Plan 15’ the strategy perhaps best summarises the position the Japan industrial gases business finds...

Last month’s feature on cryogenic valves described them as ‘essential to our industry’ due to their daily dealings with cryogenic matter. But if there were no tanks to store the substance in, or tankers to...

In the air gas industry the distribution of liquefied air took off in a major way during the 1980s and 1990s. From the ASU via trailers or railcars, to filling stations or end-users where cold...