nexAir (www.nexair.com), a Memphis, Tennessee- based company with revenues over $100 million, is a dominant force in the industrial gas markets in the southeastern region of the US. Its warehouse team, under the leadership of John Climer, helped establish an improved...
While 2009 was dominated by the worldwide recession, 2010 saw clear progress towards recovery. In this report we look at 2011, a year in which economic recovery slowed across the globe and a climate of economic uncertainty developed. We examine...
Industrial gas producer Messer (www.messergroup.com) has built an air separation plant, the company’s largest in Europe, in Salzgitter, Germany for approximately EUR 50 million. This plant produces 28,000 Nm3 of oxygen per day, 40,000 Nm3 of nitrogen per day, and...
The separation of air into its simplest components is practiced on an industrial scale using cryogenic distillation in addition to adsorption and membranes. The inputs to an air separation unit (ASU) are air, electrical power, and cooling water. The outputs...
In today’s economy, which has been challenging in most market sectors, business professionals need ways to retain the business they currently enjoy while finding creative ways to profitably grow their business. Chart’s MicroBulk system (www.chart-ind.com) enables industrial gas distributors to provide improved...
Bryan Keen, GAWDA’s (www.gawda.org) President/Chairman, and Michael Tiller, Compressed Gas Association’s (CGA) (www.cga.net) President and CEO, announced at the opening session of GAWDA’s Annual Meeting a new relationship that will provide GAWDA distributor members with free access to CGA’s electronic safety...
Linking continuous improvement (CI) through a company’s culture to its strategic business goals is imperative to the successful implementation of CI. For example, General Electric links forty percent of top management bonuses to successful implementation of CI. Without such linkage, CI...
Our second annual Best of CryoGas International proved as difficult yet as enjoyable as our first. Poring over a year’s worth of images spoke to our creative sides as we debated the merits of advertisements, graphics,...
Strength across all oxygen markets as the US pulls out of the recession has led to greater demand for oxygen. Major gas producers in the US have been concentrating on on-site oxygen and nitrogen for new large volume applications such...
Algae are exceptionally gifted chemists and help climate protection. This is because algae take in carbon dioxide (CO2) and sunlight to produce chemicals such as carbohydrates, lipids, and amino acids. In special cases they even produce bioethanol, which is a...
