Thanks to the rising concern for the environment and the price of gas, electric-drive technologies are ready to compete with—and complement—the ubiquitous internal combustion engines (ICE), according to US Department of Energy (DOE) (www.energy. gov). By combining an ICE with new advanced...
Admit it—when bottled water first hit the market you initially thought it was crazy. Your first reaction was probably, “Why pay for something that is virtually free?” Well that market exploded into the second largest segment of the...
The dominance of oil-based energy, such as gasoline and diesel, has kept the investment in liquefied natural gas (LNG) infrastructure modestly restrained. With recent oil price hikes, reports of new natural gas reserves being discovered, and continued environmental pressure for cleaner-burning...
Over the course of three days in May almost 1,500 equipment manufacturers, technology providers, fleet representatives, and concerned citizens attended the inaugural 2011 Alternative Clean Transportation “ACT” Expo (www. actexpo.com) at the Long Beach Convention Center in Long Beach, California. The...
According to a 2003 report by the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the US generates approximately 290 million scrap tires annually. Until recently, this large amount of waste has been disposed of in landfills or other types of tire piles....
In this feature we interview Praxair’s James Baughman, about the company’s North American specialty gases business.
Since Air Products (www.airproducts.com) first began locating its industrial gas facilities adjacent to its customers in the 1940s, the concept of “on-site” has typically been associated with bulk gases such as oxygen, nitrogen, or hydrogen. Now, however, for the first time,...
Q1 2011 Results Robert W. Baird and Company (www.rw baird.com) conducts a quarterly survey of over 40,000 US companies in the distribution of industrial products (All Distributors). In 2010, Baird teamed with CryoGas International (www.cryogas.com) to include a large sample...
Since the earliest days of IC (integrated chip) production in Silicon Valley, the IC industry has always had the majority of its fabrication facilities located in seismically active regions. Moreover, it appears that over time, the IC producers and their...
Distributors must focus on solutions that take them from their current business state to a desired future business state. As discussed in my previous article, this is done “Through Customer Driven Continuous Improvement.” (See “Independent Distributors Transforming the Playing Field,” CGI,...
