Economic headwinds continue to test the robust nature of the global industrial gases business, whether through unfavourable ccurrency impacts, the decline in oil and natural gas prices, or lower economic activity – there has been...
This month our regional focus is on South America, a region long considered one of the emerging industrial gas markets but arguably in the shadow of fellow developing gas hubs, the Middle East and Asia-Pacific.
May 2015 seems an appropriate time to explore the industrial gases business in Eastern Europe. Little over a year since both political and military fighting erupted in eastern Ukraine, few could have foreseen quite how...
A rapidly changing outlook ensues in the European market in 2015, as twists and turns continue to take shape in the region.
With the Eurozone becoming increasingly constricted by the tightening grip of deflation, coupled with the effects of several other simultaneously poorly-performing global economies, Europe finds itself in a potentially precarious position in 2015.
March 2014: When the Global Gases Group opened its first gas production facility in Tamil Nadu, it became the first in a long line of developments in India last year.
A period of transition – so often a phrase used in sporting narrative or to describe the passage of time a team or club finds itself in. This is also an apt description of the...
Since the 1980s the Turkish economy has transitioned rapidly from a centrally planned communist marketplace to a dynamic, export-oriented, rapidly modernising entity. Today, it has an industrial gas business to match.
When gasworld last focused on the Italian industrial gases market, the emphasis was on recovery from the global economic recession. The region’s economy had stabilised – later than fellow many fellow European markets – and...
Russia has perhaps been in the headlines for all the wrong reasons this year; political uncertainty in 2014 has certainly already been cited by two of gasworld’s interviewees as a significant challenge to doing business...
