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Air Products Pioneers On-Site Supply of Ammonia

Since Air Products (www.airproducts.com) first began locating its industrial gas facilities adjacent to its customers in the 1940s, the concept of “on-site” has typically been associated with bulk gases such as oxygen, nitrogen, or hydrogen. Now, however, for the first time,...


The Baird/CryoGas Industrial Distributor Survey

Q1 2011 Results Robert W. Baird and Company (www.rw baird.com) conducts a quarterly survey of over 40,000 US companies in the distribution of industrial products (All Distributors). In 2010, Baird teamed with CryoGas International (www.cryogas.com) to include a large sample...



Independent Distributors Transforming the Playing Field

Distributors must focus on solutions that take them from their current business state to a desired future business state. As discussed in my previous article, this is done “Through Customer Driven Continuous Improvement.” (See “Independent Distributors Transforming the Playing Field,” CGI,...


Inside a Thin Film Crystalline Solar Cell Fabrication Plant

The rapid expansion of photovoltaic manufacturing capacity has brought significant developments in technological capabilities, most notably the development of thin film photovoltaics (PV). Historically, PV cells are made using silicon wafers (known as crystalline silicon technology), but in thin film technology, the...



Japan’s Role in the Global Electronics Supply Chain

In this article, writers from The Gas Review (www.gasreview.co.jp), Japan’s premiere monthly news publication covering industrial gases and energy economics in Asia, share with us the ways in which the devastating earthquake and tsunami of March 11, 2011, affected the Japanese and...


The Project Morpheus Lander

NASA’s Johnson Space Center’s (JSC) Mission Control in Houston, TX, takes control of a mission as soon as a spacecraft is launched from Kennedy Space Center in Florida. But Houston, also known as Space City, has not fired a rocket...



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