The food and beverage industry has enjoyed the benefits of using industrial gases for more than 45 years. These gases—primarily nitrogen and carbon dioxide—are used to chill, freeze, grind, and package a variety of products, including bakery and...
Companies that supply bulk or cylinder propane gas must balance the pressure to reduce costs with accurate and efficient service delivery to ensure residential and commercial customers always have an available gas supply. Making the distribution challenge more complex are additional...
It is perhaps your greatest untapped market segment today. For decades, welding distributors have made a living serving industrial endusers’ hard goods and consumables needs, providing gases, wire, welders, and all manner of accessories. For many distributors, their entire business has...
Last year, the US EPA (Environmental Protection Agency) and DOT (Department of Transportation) proposed the first-ever fuel efficiency and vehicular gas emissions standards for medium- and heavy-duty trucks and buses, many of which use diesel.
Thanks to the rising concern for the environment and the price of gas, electric-drive technologies are ready to compete with—and complement—the ubiquitous internal combustion engines (ICE), according to US Department of Energy (DOE) (www.energy. gov). By combining an ICE with new advanced...
Admit it—when bottled water first hit the market you initially thought it was crazy. Your first reaction was probably, “Why pay for something that is virtually free?” Well that market exploded into the second largest segment of the...
The dominance of oil-based energy, such as gasoline and diesel, has kept the investment in liquefied natural gas (LNG) infrastructure modestly restrained. With recent oil price hikes, reports of new natural gas reserves being discovered, and continued environmental pressure for cleaner-burning...
