Complex picture in North American industrial gases – IWDC
The supply of industrial gases across North American markets is robust right now, but the picture is also complex and needs to be watched.
The supply of industrial gases across North American markets is robust right now, but the picture is also complex and needs to be watched.
Bluefors, a Finnish cryogenics manufacturer, is looking to open a second site in the US, nearly a year on from its acquisition of the US cryocooler business Cryomech. It is also investing in growing the...
ITT, the listed US engineering business with a Connecticut headquarters, has said more about its recent purchase of the Danish cryo marine pumps business Svanehøj Group.
Air Liquide’s leadership sees “a very significant market opportunity” in carbon dioxide, but mainly in taking CO2 out of existing manufacturing sites rather than in CO2 transport and storage.
Industrial gases major Air Liquide has emphasised its opportunities flowing from the US Inflation Reduction Act clean-energy incentives, while acknowledging the complexity that attaches to delivering large-scale projects.
Members of the cryogenics team at NASA have said they are busy finessing practices for the Artemis missions, including improving ground capabilities and logging further training hours.
Electrolyser technology has not developed enough for large-scale green hydrogen projects to stack up as viable investments and move ahead.
Air Products has strongly backed the US Treasury’s recent move to restrict the green subsidies that are available to hydrogen producers under the country’s 2022 Inflation Reduction Act only to those projects that are powered...
Industrial gases major Air Products has dismissed the opportunity to source natural, geological hydrogen – so-called white hydrogen – as ‘pie in the sky’.
Some of today’s air separation units incorporate on-site renewables to green the production of air gases, but it’s a tiny part of the wider picture. The grid-derived power that’s used to run nearly all of North...