When planning market strategies industrial gas suppliers are constrained by the reality that atmospheric gases cannot be delivered at competitive cost beyond a certain radius, but benefit from the universal availability of the process feedstock...
Tucked away in Tarpon Springs, north of Tampa in the US, is MagneGas Corporation, an innovative producer and rapidly expanding retail distributor of metal cutting gases with global ambitions. The company has been developing its...
Make or buy, that is the question. It’s a very broad concept that today politicians, at least in Europe, tend to associate with job losses, de-industrialisation, de-localisation, and loss of taxes and income.
Crude oil currently makes the world go round. It is the most important raw material for the global economy and is synonymous with prosperity and progress. It powers cars, planes and ships, and is the...
When CO2 is the subject of discussion, outside of those in the gas trade, it is usually associated with greenhouse gases, a gas exhaled endlessly, and soft drinks. As those in the gas industry know...
Unlike many other chemical manufacturing processes, the manufacture of atmospheric gases (oxygen, nitrogen and argon) produces virtually no harmful or undesirable by-products at all.
When delving into the world of mergers and acqusitions (M&A) as applied to the industrial gases industry, it’s worth first understanding the huge capital cost and dynamics that comprise the industry itself.
Over 90 years ago, Christian Nielsen established the Danish company Strandmøllen A/S, a name that has now become synonymous with the gases industry in Scandinavia.
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...
Broadly speaking there are two fundamental issues that make compliance a strategic imperative for the gases industry: the first is public safety and the second is the energy efficiency that in turn influences their carbon...
