Never has the industrial and medical gas distributor been faced with such a need to rethink their strategy and approach to the specialty gas business. Though sales continue to grow at a healthy rate, margins...
Family-owned distributorship Weiler Welding was launched in 1920 out of a garage in Dayton, Ohio, and experienced steady growth with two fill plants.
Since the beginning of my career in the early 1970s, I have observed the transformation of distributors from sellers of just oxygen and acetylene, to packagers of these gases as well as nitrogen, argon, and...
Ultra high purity gases, calibration gases, and cylinder gas mixtures are used in many manufacturing processes and must be free from harmful contaminants that could interfere with controlled processes or vital instrumentation.
National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) researchers at the Institute for Bioscience and Biotechnology Research (IBBR) have demonstrated the most precise method yet to measure the structural configuration of monoclonal antibodies, an important factor...
The specialty gases business of 2015 continues to go from strength to strength, both in its make-up and its growth potential. Several pillars of growth increasingly drive specialty gas demand, while innovations in production processes,...
When Boston-based 908 Devices, a pioneer of purpose-built devices for chemical analysis, was awarded a contract valued up to $11.5 million by the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) this June, it marked another new niche...
The extraction and use of shale oil and gas will continue to be a primary driver of the US economy even as prices per barrel and rig counts decline and inventory increases. In order to...
One of the provisions in the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) set to become law in August of this year involves Food Defense.
Nearly 25,000 visitors and exhibitors from the microelectronics industry once more converged on the Moscone Center in San Francisco in July for SEMICON West 2015 and Intersolar North America 2015.
