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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,...

The rapid expansion of photovoltaic manufacturing capacity has brought significant developments in technological capabilities, most notably the development of thin film photovoltaics (PV). Historically, PV cells are made using silicon wafers (known as crystalline silicon technology), but in thin film technology, the...

NASA’s Johnson Space Center’s (JSC) Mission Control in Houston, TX, takes control of a mission as soon as a spacecraft is launched from Kennedy Space Center in Florida. But Houston, also known as Space City, has not fired a rocket...

SEMI PV Group is again proud to partner with Intersolar North America (www.intersolar.us), the world’s leading exhibition series for the solar industry, for the 3rd annual combined SEMICON West/Intersolar Expo and Conference held July 11–14, 2011...

Argon demand has been strong over the past year with key markets showing robust growth as the US economy comes out of recession. Production of argon is dependent on large volume oxygen production at air separation units (ASUs). Unfortunately, demand...

Global Thermostat LLC (GT) (www.global thermostat.com) was formed in 2006 to develop and commercialize a unique technology for the direct capture of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and other sources. The GT process “co-generates” carbon capture with other industrial processes—such as power...