“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.
In October, after being closed for repairs for nearly a year, the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC) will start-up again and the search for the smallest known particles in the universe will resume (see “Particles Complete First Circuit at CERN,” CGI, October...
This report, our fourth in a series of articles on activity based business analysis and performance for US gases and welding distributors, examines distribution costs and improving distribution efficiency through Activity Based Costing (ABC).
Manufacturing and selling highpurity specialty gases requires complex resources and represents a significant investment for industrial gas distributors.
After an exceptionally good 2008, first quarter 2009 results of the main industrial gas companies in Latin America began to show the effect of the global slowdown in the region, and the exchange rate variations that followed.
Made possible by ever-changing and emerging technologies, our industry is constantly looking for ways to create innovative products based on new materials and fresh ways of thinking.
As the economy slows down so does the demand for rare gases. During the last 12 months demand for xenon (Xe) declined almost 40 percent and demand for krypton (Kr) fell by about 30 percent.
