Wlliams Ramsay and Travers Morris discovered the three gases — krypton (Kr), xenon (Xe), and neon (Ne) — more than 120 years ago. These three are part of a family of gases most commonly referred to as rare or noble....
CryoGas International (www.cryogas.com) is partnering with Robert W. Baird & Co. (www.rwbaird.com) to provide quarterly reports on the state of the US Gases and Welding & Cutting Distributor segment from the perspective of the broader US industrial distribution industry. These reports will...
This year’s Cryogen-Expo will be held November 9–11 in the exhibition center at the Moscow–Expocentre Fairgrounds. Chaired by Aleksey M. Arkharov, esteemed Russian scientist and Chairman of this year’s Exhibition Organizing Committee, the Expo will focus on actual problems and new developments...
Since the discovery of the Joule-Thomson (JT) Effect almost 150 years ago, scientists and engineers have pursued the efficient separation and liquefaction of air using low-temperature distillation. Reducing production costs of industrial gases is fundamental not only to the industrial gas...
The GAWDA convention returns to Maui this year with the upbeat theme of “Riding the Wave of the Future.” Be sure to join GAWDA members and their families at this year’s event. This is one luau you won’t...
The Gerhart Scale Corporation (Gerhart) (www.gerhart.com) began as an industrial scale distributor that supplied the transportation and manufacturing sectors. For the industrial gas sector, Gerhart’s scales service highway- and plant-located truck scale systems for merchant bulk weight and fill control systems for...
Business owners and managers can never ignore the bottom line. It represents the definitive snapshot of how well a company is doing in a given point in time. While this measure provides an easy-to-understand statistic on how well your business...
PCI (www.pcigases.com), a Californiabased on-site industrial gas manufacturer, was founded in 1984 to manufacture cryogenic air separation devices for operation in extreme and remote environments. Since then, PCI has continually expanded its technology platforms to include nitrogen membrane systems and Vacuum Swing Adsorption...
The Linde Group (www.linde.com), a world leading gases and engineering company operating in more than 100 countries, has large and widespread operations that require a well-run maintenance program. As such, Linde is no stranger to advanced monitoring techniques like the online monitoring...
In February, I reported on the financial results for the major players in the Latin American region, and noted that signs of an economic recovery were showing. (See “The Latin American Business Report,” CGI, February 2010, pp. 44–46.) This article presents an economic...
