Have your customers been complaining about the high price of helium? This is a big concern at ULVAC (www.ulvac. com), an international corporation that designs, manufactures, and markets helium recovery and reuse systems.

“On March 11, 1968, a NASA subcontractor shipped a cryogenic oxygen tank to a California assembly plant, where it was installed into a spacecraft for an upcoming mission,” wrote author Norman Augustine.

Simple, small, smooth, inert, and lighter than air, helium is especially useful to anyone that needs to make a small molecule transfer in their work process. This tiny and inert molecule is ideal for leak detection.

During 2006 and 2007, worldwide helium supply was very tightly balanced with demand and remained that way for the first three quarters of 2008.