Carbon dioxide is an important industrial gas. Unlike oxygen, nitrogen and argon, carbon dioxide (CO2) is a by-product of a main supplier’s operations, so understanding the dynamics of the industries supplying the feedstock is critical...
Hydrogen has been consistently in the news of late and, indeed, throughout 2016 as a whole. From new plants coming on-stream to clean fuel contracts and fuel cell technology collaborations, hydrogen is arguably in demand...
What is the driver behind this article, you may ask? Well, we attended the GAWDA Spring Management Conference in Savannah, GA, in April. Efficiency of distributors was part of the theme of a panel of...
There is an expression ‘what goes around, comes around’ and that is very true related to the breaking news of a potential merger between Praxair, Inc. and The Linde Group. Here, gasworld Business Intelligence explores the...
It’s important to appreciate the impact the commodities market has, and is having, on the theft of metal. The correlation between the price of metal and the level of theft is a well-known and acknowledged...
Metal theft was the single largest threat to the UK’s infrastructure, heritage and transport systems between 2009 and the introduction of the new Scrap Metal Dealers Act in December 2013; it was never far from...
When Linde announced in mid-March that it had been awarded multiple gas and chemical supply contracts for a number of world leading photovoltaic (PV) cell manufacturer’s first plants in South East Asia, it threw fresh...
With the ever-increasing popularity of hydrogen fuelled cars and the current lack of substantial hydrogen fuelling infrastructure, one dilemma has consistently arisen: the ‘chicken or the egg’ scenario. Which came first, and in this case,...
When Linde Canada Limited announced in August 2014 that it had identified nearly 2,000 cylinders that were previously considered lost or stolen, it drew attention to an often unspoken concern in the gases industry.
Metallurgy has been in the industrial gas headlines a number of times over the last 12 months as the steel sector in particular has faced ongoing challenges in its market dynamics.
