I was asked to make a call with a new sales rep on business we had lost a year earlier. The customer was nice enough to give us an email recapping our past deficiencies including...
Unlike other commercial and industrial markets in the industrial gas business, healthcare is driven by medical care — one of life’s necessities.
Connecticut’s Praxair, Inc. announced early in March that the company has acquired UK-based NOxBOX Ltd. Known for manufacturing inhaled gas delivery and monitoring instruments for the medical market, NOxBOX was acquired from Praxair supplier Bedfont...
Distributor and supplier members of the Gases and Welding Distributors Association (GAWDA) never feel alone regarding safety best practices and regulation updates in their business operations.
Today, oxygen therapy is a commonplace part of trauma care, anesthesiology, management of respiratory diseases, and treatment of a wide variety of other acute and chronic medical conditions. The many medical benefits of oxygen usage...
Roughly two years after the start of production from the Qatar 2 helium source turned a severe shortage to a veritable glut of supply almost overnight, helium markets may finally be showing signs of stability.
In February 2016, Air Water Inc., an industrial gas company based in Japan, acquired 100 percent of the shares of Taylor-Wharton Malaysia SBN BHD (TW) and appointed Eric Rottier as Chairman and CEO and Roland...
Breakthrough innovations in medical research and discovery now dictate the use of cryo preservation, transportation, and storage solutions for therapies that treat chronic and terminal diseases. For years the pharmaceutical industry has been excited about...
Ten years ago, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) did an about-face in their approach to electronic records and signatures to encourage a broader adoption of new record management technologies.
The Gases and Welding Distributors Association’s (GAWDA) President, Bill Visintainer, welcomed over 670 attendees to this year’s Spring Management Conference. GAWDA members and their spouses enjoyed meeting with colleagues, special “low-country” hors d’oeuvres, and a...
