Regional analysis
Regional Markets – Focus on: BRICs Subscription
When it comes to global growth projections, now is probably a good time to look at the BRIC’s. At a time when global activity has weakened, credit risks are rising and a fear of the unknown continues to grow, some solace can at least be found in the developing and emerging economies.
Regional Markets: Focus on Middle East Subscription
The Middle East: For decades, home to the riches of the world’s oil dependence; for years, courted by the industrial gases business as the next big region of opportunity. Growth of around $500m in the Middle East gases industry since 2007 underlines this potential.
Regional Markets: Focus on China Subscription
It has been clear for years that the China gases business would be at the forefront of the global industrial gas industry going forward. Here, we explore how this was emphasised so strongly in 2010 and look at what we might come to expect in the next few years.
Regional Markets: Focus on Japan Subscription
The Gas Review's Izumi Ohe describes the position that the Japanese gases business currently finds itself in, as well as explaining the recovery effort underway in the country's northeast following the earthquake and tsunami of six months ago.
Regional Markets: Focus on South Pacific Rim Subscription
The South Pacific Rim market is in the spotlight once again this month, dominated by the gas markets of Australia and New Zealand. But what developments have we seen in the past year? What’s going on in the world of gases in the South Pacific?
Regional Markets: Focus on North Pacific Subscription
It’s almost impossible to discuss the gas markets of the North Pacific, and Taiwan in particular, without some spotlight on the electronics business; such is the symbiotic relationship between the two.
Regional Markets: Focus on Asia-Pacific Subscription
The current value of the Asia-Pacific gases business perhaps belies the strength of interest from the gas and equipment community itself in 2011, if gasworld’s observations are anything to go by.
Regional Markets: Focus on Africa Subscription
As one of the so-called developing economies, Africa is embedded in the hopes and expectations of future gases growth.
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Regional Markets: Focus on Latin America Subscription
With gasworld’s Latin American Industrial Gases Conference 2011 looming large on the horizon, what better time to explore the dynamics of a buoyant South & Central American gases business in 2010?
Regional Markets: Focus on North America Subscription
A ‘solid turnaround’ is just one description of business in the North American gases market in 2010. Last year, it seems, was a steady twelve months for the region.
Regional Markets: Focus on Western Europe Subscription
It’s an interesting time for the industrial gas markets of Western Europe. The financial climate has been difficult; economic anxieties have been voiced where some countries are concerned in the eurozone.
Regional Markets: Focus on Central Europe Subscription
Poland is just one of a number of developing economies in the Central Europe region, markets that are now said to be established and relatively stable.
Special features
An introduction to... MicroBulk Subscription
In today’s economy, most market sectors have been challenging and business professionals need ways to profitably grow their business. A MicroBulk system enables industrial gas distributors (from the independent to the international gas companies) to provide improved service to their customers.
Interviews
Cylinder optimisation in Central Europe – An interview with Andrey Ruban Subscription
As Area Sales Manager of CEE for Worthington Cylinders, Andrey Ruban sees opportunities for the cylinder business in Central and Eastern Europe, writes Rob Cockerill.
Gas profiles
Natural gas – Essential, everyday but unpredictable Subscription
Used in heating, cooking and electricity production, many facets of modern life could not exist without the fossil fuel natural gas. Derived from the earth thanks to thousands of years of gradual biological processes, the modern fuel source looks set to continue on its anything but gradual market trajectory.
