Family-owned industrial-gas distributor businesses are often a good fit for owners selling up to the workforce with an employee stock ownership plan, and several have done just that. Christian Annesley takes a closer look
The timing of the planned sale of the Federal Helium System assets has been thrown into doubt by a lawsuit from Air Products seeking a delay.
There was a continued solid picture for gas and welding distributors in the second quarter of 2023, with conditions looking robust by most measures though slightly lower sequentially after an even stronger showing in Q1....
Gas distributors across North America have embraced digital transformation in recent years, with the pandemic hastening that transition – and artificial intelligence promising to move the dial even faster from here. Christian Annesley tries to...
It is more than six months now since the Midwest air gases company Absolute Air started operations with its ASU in Faribault, Minnesota. Christian Annesley spoke to President Ned Pontious and Chairman Brad Peterson about establishing...
Hydrogen is a huge play around the world right now – but we are only at the start of things.
Right around the world, the supply pressures in carbon dioxide are still with us. The pressure in 2023 might not be quite as acute as in 2022 in some markets, but it hasn’t gone away.
2022’s US Inflation Reduction Act means the US is leading the way when it comes to driving the major clean energy projects that sit at the heart of the worldwide energy transition targeting Net Zero...
What’s on the agenda of Brad Peterson, Chair of Mississippi Welders Supply, as 2023 shapes up? After a significant period of investment and transformation, Christian Annesley caught up with him to find out
There is always change and development in packaged gases, even if most of the familiar and enduring cylinders themselves are designed to be refilled hundreds of times over many decades.
