Cutting and welding plays, and will continue to play, an integral role in both infrastructure development and the manufacturing sector, especially in the production of vehicles, ships and heavy equipment.
BOC officially opened its state-of-the-art acetylene production facility in Immingham, Lincolnshire in October, a £35m investment to provide UK and Ireland manufacturing industries with a secure source of acetylene for many years to come.
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,...
All roads appear to lead to growth in the welding and cutting business of 2016, with some sources projecting substantial growth through to 2020 as equipment demand from the energy, automotive and construction industries increases.
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.
Where does one start in such a wide field? After all, we have been manufacturing and testing gas cylinders for over a hundred years.
In the presentation that John Raquet, founder and CEO of gasworld, gave at the IG China 2015 Forum last year in Chengdu, China, he estimated that the cylinder gas business accounts for 32% of the...
In the integral business of cylinder filling and distribution, it’s very much a case of higher and higher; higher pressures, higher automation, higher levels of integration and system intelligence and, of course, ever-higher expectations.
As has typically been the case, the helium business continues to be one of the more interesting sectors of the industrial gas business.
Until 10 years ago, helium usage in electronics manufacturing was relatively low and semiconductor factories, which process thousands of silicon wafers per day, were supplied using helium cylinders or bundles of cylinders.
