Specialty Gases

This month’s sub-theme marks the end of a trio of features looking into various aspects of the cylinder market.

In 1986, with the rapid progression of computer technology, we felt there would be a market for automated filling of compressed gas cylinders. In the mid 1970s, as a young engineer, I had been involved...

Midway through 2014 and the global industrial gases industry is in the midst of a gradually improving business environment.

Time is money. So not surprisingly, solutions to enhance gas operation productivity represent a major growth area for all kinds of gas control equipment – across all gas applications – both upstream and downstream in...

The GAWDA 2013 Annual Convention. September 15-18, Orlando, Florida

We define core specialty gases as all specialty gases except those sold into the electronics industries, but including specialty gas products sold into the medical market. In “The Next Big Deal for Specialty Gases” (CryoGas, February 2013,...

  The current proliferation of electronic devices, including smart phones, music players, tablets, and cameras has created a huge demand for semiconductor memory chips. New and more complex applications and functionality for many of these devices is adding to that demand.

The specialty gas industry is about 50 years old. During that time, there has been rapid innovation in production processes, instrumentation, cylinders, valves, distribution, and engineering. For example, Ultra High Purity (UHP, Grade 5.0) gases used to be produced in a...