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My involvement in the Cryogenic Society for the last few years has had an unintended side effect. Whenever I’m out and about in Chicago, the city where I live, I find myself stumbling across hints of the cryo world that I would not have noticed before.
Spend 10 minutes more with William J. Kroll and see what else the Chairman and CEO of MATHESON had to say about the future of the gases business, future travel plans, and experiences of working within a Japanese culture.
As most of us global sales guys spend so much of our time in the air, I thought I would mention how I see so many of the major airlines today as careless ventures that see the business traveller only as a gravy train for their bottom line.
In my last column I spoke about the ‘ups and downs’ of travelling to promote our wares. This month, I’m going to talk about how this experience has given a unique vision on the evolution of our niche of an industry.
From the BRICs last month, to Central Europe this issue. The message remains the same: unperturbed. Here we focus on the industrial gas markets of Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic, where the demand for gases is in a somewhat strong growth mode.
The technology company The Linde Group has been awarded a contract to supply hydrogen to the combustion chamber test facilities run by Germany’s national research center for aeronautics and space (DLR) in Cologne.
It has been announced that the Renewable Energy Special Measures Act will go into effect in July 2012. From its introduction, electric power companies in Japan will be obliged to purchase electricity from renewable energy sources.