Vacuum insulated products, cryogenic systems, biological storage systems, and related software and monitoring devices are invaluable to biotechnology research applications such as gene therapy, oncology, immunology, and stem cell research; they are therefore playing an increasingly large role in healthcare markets.
Supplying high-purity carrier, support, process, or calibration gases safely and cost efficiently, without compromising purity and sample integrity, is best accomplished with a gas sampling and control system having components compatible with the sample and conditions required for the specific application.
THE LIFE SCIENCES MARKET For a gas supplier that has customarily serviced industrial accounts such as welding shops, providing gases and related equipment to the Life Sciences may require a whole new business plan.
The Middle East is a region that remains an investment target for major gas companies and regional players alike, despite a significant downturn in mature gas markets elsewhere. In the Middle East, investment in oil and gas segments, and in...
Have your customers been complaining about the high price of helium? This is a big concern at ULVAC (www.ulvac. com), an international corporation that designs, manufactures, and markets helium recovery and reuse systems.
“On March 11, 1968, a NASA subcontractor shipped a cryogenic oxygen tank to a California assembly plant, where it was installed into a spacecraft for an upcoming mission,” wrote author Norman Augustine.
Simple, small, smooth, inert, and lighter than air, helium is especially useful to anyone that needs to make a small molecule transfer in their work process. This tiny and inert molecule is ideal for leak detection.
During 2006 and 2007, worldwide helium supply was very tightly balanced with demand and remained that way for the first three quarters of 2008.
This report, our fourth in a series of articles on activity based business analysis and performance for US gases and welding distributors, examines distribution costs and improving distribution efficiency through Activity Based Costing (ABC).
