Specialty Gases

Vacuum specialist Leybold will present its new Novadry vacuum pump series at the international trade fair for the meat industry IFFA in Frankfurt next month.

SIAD Macchine Impianti S.p.A. (SIAD MI) ended 2018 in great shape, having completed important negotiations with two highly prestigious customers in the Gulf Area.

Merck has won the takeover battle of electronic materials company Versum Materials, Inc. with a reported $6.4bn offer.

Specialty gases of ultra-high purity (99.995% and above) are widely used in a range of applications and industries including, semiconductor, pharmaceuticals, medicine, electronics, aeronautics and petrochemicals.

JEOL USA has expanded its mass spectrometer product line with the development of a new GC-triple quadrupole mass spectrometer system. The JMS-TQ4000GC was introduced at the Pittcon Conference in Philadephia this week in booth #3035.

Take 10 minutes out with Matt Ritter, Global Business Director of Fluorochemicals at Arkema, as he discusses safety, corporate sustainability and the big changes underway in the refrigerants business.

The hierarchy of accredited calibration gas mixtures has, in recent years, been relatively stable. At the base of the pyramid there is a simple ISO 9000 accreditation to demonstrate compliance with internal quality systems.

The growth rate for industrial and specialty gas consumption is not uniform across the world, with demand often driven by a country’s GDP growth and therefore fluctuating across the established and emerging economies. As GDP...

Rare gases had a good 2018. We saw a stabilization of prices for xenon, a slight decline in neon and a slight increase in krypton, but no wild swings as in many of the past...

In this month’s issue of gasworld US, we examine the markets for the rare gases: krypton, neon, and xenon.