After last month’s focus on air separation technologies, here we pick up the baton of gas manufacture and cast the net a little wider still to a range of different gas production technologies.
Memphis-based nexAir has announced the acquisition of the assets and operations of National Balloon & Banner, trading as HICO of Jackson, a 28 year-old helium distributor in Jackson, Mississippi.
Air Products is thinking “outside the box” for new ways to obtain helium and improve future supply reliability for its customers in opening a one-of-a-kind helium facility in Doe Canyon, Colorado.
Shortages in the helium supply and its rising cost have been widely known issues for those working in industries using helium as a process/trace gas. Due to rising cost, helium users have considered spending money...
The world’s helium industry has oscillated from one of tight supply starting in 2012 to an over-supply situation that developed in early 2014, wreaking havoc on supply chain management.
