The Specialty Gases segment is one of the few markets that has been resilient in this recession and represents an excellent growth path for the independent gas distributor. Critical to success in this marketplace is a professional and knowledgeable specialty gas...

A look at the industrial gas industry’s past year of activities in medical markets reveals resiliency in the healthcare segment. Unlike other commercial and industrial markets, healthcare is driven by medical care — one of life’s necessities. 

Vacuum insulated products, cryogenic systems, biological storage systems, and related software and monitoring devices are invaluable to biotechnology research applications such as gene therapy, oncology, immunology, and stem cell research; they are therefore playing an increasingly large role in healthcare markets.

Supplying high-purity carrier, support, process, or calibration gases safely and cost efficiently, without compromising purity and sample integrity, is best accomplished with a gas sampling and control system having components compatible with the sample and conditions required for the specific application.

THE LIFE SCIENCES MARKET  For a gas supplier that has customarily serviced industrial accounts such as welding shops, providing gases and related equipment to the Life Sciences may require a whole new business plan.