Credit cards are a popular, convenient, and efficient form of payment for products and services. For the business community, offering credit cards as a form of payment is a sure way to boost sales, improve cash flow, and automate back...
Air Products, the leading global supplier of hydrogen to refineries to assist in the production of cleaner burning transportation fuels, has unique experience in the hydrogen fueling industry. The company’s varied fueling applications provide an opportunity to assess consumer experiences, evaluate...
Hydrogen is used in numerous refining and petrochemical processes. In refining, hydrogen is needed to upgrade crude oil, which is becoming increasingly heavier and more sour. In petrochemicals, hydrogen is needed as a necessary reactant for various synthesis reactions.
In Part 1 of this series on Independent Distributors Transforming the Playing Field (see “nexAir’s Path to Operational Excellence,” CryoGas, December 2011, p. 38), we described how the low performing warehouse department at nexAir, a Memphis, TN based distributor with revenues...
The world’s hydrogen and fuel cell community will come together at the Sheraton Centre Toronto in Toronto, Canada from June 3–7, 2012, for the World Hydrogen Energy Conference 2012 (WHEC2012). Canada is a pioneer in the research, development, and deployment of...
Tucked away in Tarpon Springs, north of Tampa in the US, is MagneGas Corporation, an innovative producer and rapidly expanding retail distributor of metal cutting gases with global ambitions. The company has been developing its...
Make or buy, that is the question. It’s a very broad concept that today politicians, at least in Europe, tend to associate with job losses, de-industrialisation, de-localisation, and loss of taxes and income.
Crude oil currently makes the world go round. It is the most important raw material for the global economy and is synonymous with prosperity and progress. It powers cars, planes and ships, and is the...
When CO2 is the subject of discussion, outside of those in the gas trade, it is usually associated with greenhouse gases, a gas exhaled endlessly, and soft drinks. As those in the gas industry know...
Unlike many other chemical manufacturing processes, the manufacture of atmospheric gases (oxygen, nitrogen and argon) produces virtually no harmful or undesirable by-products at all.
