Brazil

The troubled economies of South America are facing another year of trade and fiscal uncertainty, if various informed projections are realised over the next 12 months.

The commercial industrial gas market in Brazil generated revenues of just over $2.2 billion in 2014. The country’s market represents the largest in the South American region, yet has faced year-on-year decline since its record...

Air Liquide has announced its entry into the Colombian market with a €40m investment in a new carbon dioxide (CO2) production plant and cogeneration unit.

Despite continued external headwinds and modest economic growth prospects around the world, air separation units and other projects in the $78bn (2014) industrial gases business continue to emerge globally throughout the year – such is...

Nitrotec has expressed “huge satisfaction” after it opened a new factory in Brazil – located in a key strategic location.

This month our regional focus is on South America, a region long considered one of the emerging industrial gas markets but arguably in the shadow of fellow developing gas hubs, the Middle East and Asia-Pacific.

Praxair has announced it has started up multiple plants serving the oxygen needs of Nadir Figueiredo S/A, one of Brazil‘s leading housewares manufacturers.

Since the global recession, many world markets with significant ethanol resources, such as the Americas, have consolidated and numerous dormant plants have been sold – in some cases for pennies on the dollar. Some of...

Curtiss-Wright Corporation’s Industrial division has announced the acquisition of the valve division of Engemasa Engenharia E Materiais LTDA of Sao Carlos, Brazil.