There’s an adage that suggests, ‘there is no security on this Earth; there is only opportunity’. That seems appropriate right now as I stare out of a luxurious hotel window overlooking lavish yachts, super boats...
Why would anyone want to bury carbon dioxide (CO2)? The idea seemed crazy when I first heard of it a decade or so ago. Proponents of carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology will argue that...
Today we face the dual challenge of achieving both energy security and a positive climate outcome. The latest report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) finds that carbon emissions from fossil fuels such as...
The earth shook in the global gases business last week, with the news that Air Liquide had agreed the $13.4bn acquisition of fellow Tier One company Airgas, Inc., signalling a potentially seismic shift in the...
A decade or more ago, anybody who had anything to do with technology talked in three-letter acronyms. To everyone else, these acronyms conjured up pound signs; multiple pound signs, in fact.
The main factors that drive demand in the bulk distribution equipment industry are mainly new business and organic growth, the replacement of ageing equipment, and any new applications that arise for distribution equipment.
Recently, when visiting our R&D Team for a review meeting, Chris Browell our Head of R&D, made an observation that left me pondering. He said, “To the optimist, the glass is half full. To the...
French mathematician, physicist, and philosopher of science Jules Henri Poincaré once stated, “It is far better to foresee even without certainty, than not to foresee at all.”
Several years ago when writing about the US market I asked – when you’re way out in front, where is there to go?
