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Matheson’s Joe Barnett offers six steps to control your boneyard.

Different manufacturers’ gas detector components are not identical and provide different results. Interchanging raises costs and may needlessly delay the end user’s work, says Bryan Truex.

Gas process validation guidelines from the FDA have changed significantly. Now is the time to get to grips with new validation expectations for your medical gas equipment, says Ron Ball.

If you’re exporting goods from the US you must be fully aware of export laws to avoid hefty fines or even time behind bars, cautions Tom Vreeland.

Hank Grieco reports from New Jersey.

The All India Industrial Gases Manufacturers Association (AIIGMA) (www.aiigma.org) held its 34th Seminar on Industrial Gases from January 9–11, 2012, at Hotel Atlantis the Palm, Dubai. Representing the industrial gas industry in India, AIIGMA disseminates information on national and international developments related...

The Association for Iron and Steel Technology (AIST) will be hosting its annual conference, AISTech 2012, May 7–10 at the Georgia World Congress Center in Atlanta, GA. The event will feature a four-day program with more than 400 technical presentations, plant...

The Gases and Welding Distributors Association (GAWDA) (www. gawda.org) provides its members with opportunities to meet and network with other gases and welding distributors and their key suppliers. This spring, GAWDA is holding their Spring Management Conference (SMC) in...

After a pretty solid 2011 among the major industrial gas companies, the expectation seems to be for continued steady growth in the US (consistent with results of the 4Q11 Baird/CryoGas Survey as summarized on the previous page), ongoing growth and...

Discovered early in the twentieth century, argon was one of the first rare gases to find commercial application. Making up slightly less than one percent of air, argon is best known for the properties it lacks—color, odor, and taste—and for...