Much is written and discussed about the high growth in the specialty gases business and the particular nuances of this growth, with traditional applications reinvigorated and many new applications increasingly emerging.
It’s clearly an attractive space for those within the business, and also those on the outside looking in. So what does that mean for the equipment required to handle these specialty gases and more specifically, the cylinders that store and transport them?
Maintaining gas stability and purity in portable aluminium cylinders has long been a challenge, and the difficulty has escalated in recent years due not only to increasingly stringent regulatory requirements around the world, but also because of growing demand for ultra-high purity (UHP) gases. Only a few years ago, allowable contaminants in such gases were generally measured in parts-per-million (ppm) but today, parts-per-billion (ppb) and even parts-per-trillion requirements are not uncommon.
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