We live in an increasingly self-conscious world, driven by both a desire and a requirement to achieve greater sustainability. Very real evidence demonstrates the damaging footprint we are leaving on our environment. As a result, the...
Like vehicle emissions, one of the most commonly acknowledged or understood areas of environmental concern surrounds fluorinated greenhouse gases (F-gases). It’s become something of a buzz term in the wider specialty gases and chemicals business...
Bob Brown, the Australian politician once said, “The future will either be green or not at all.” As we seek to maintain our industrialised way of life in a sustainable way, employing clean technologies and...
Optimisation should be incorporated into every company’s business strategy. You should demand and accept nothing less than the best outcome for every action and activity you engage in – and cylinder filling is no exception.
Maintaining calibration test gas stability and purity in portable aluminium cylinders has long been a challenge, and the difficulty has escalated in recent years due not only to increasingly stringent regulatory requirements around the world,...
Unique among the industrial gas products is a substance that is neither a gas nor a liquid, but a solid form of carbon dioxide—dry ice. As discussed in our report on page 42 of this...
For my current article, the editor has requested me to gaze into my crystal ball and rather rashly…I have accepted the challenge, so here goes!
Dry ice is creating much more than special effects for producers and distributors of industrial gases and its related equipment.
Since 1938, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) established regulations for drug manufacturers. Medical gases are considered prescription drugs and are covered by these regulations. The regulations (21 CFR Part 211) have been revised...
Technologies for capturing carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from sources like coal-fired power plants, and either reusing it or storing it so it will not enter the atmosphere, have been in development for over 20 years.
