The American Welding Society Foundation (www.aws.org) was established in 1989 with a single mission—to develop funding to support welding scholarships. In 1991, money was set aside to support the first fellowship, which was awarded for $20,000. Since that time, the Foundation...
During the week of September 19, 2011, I had the great pleasure of visiting Beijing, China and attending the Chinese Industrial Gases Industry Association’s (CIGIA) 13th China International Exhibition on Gases Technology, Equipment, and Applications. I also had the privilege of...
CryoGas International publisher, John Campbell, recently met with Anne Roby, President of both Praxair Asia and Praxair Electronics worldwide, to talk about the company’s growth in China and its bright future prospects. Roby is based in Shanghai.
Superior Products (www.superiorprod.com), located in Cleveland, OH, has always taken pride in its willingness to go the extra mile to meet the needs of customers to provide ontime, defect-free, and competitively priced fittings and gas management systems for the gas industry....
The planning and deployment of Continuous Improvement (CI) as a business strategy through the process of Visual Policy Deployment (VPD) assists the gases and welding distributor in establishing a clear strategic direction with aligned goals and objectives throughout the organization.(See “Linking Strategy...
Taylor-Wharton Cryogenics LLC (TWC), which traces its roots to 1742, has maintained a reputation for innovation, quality, safety, and value in the cryogenic storage market. The company and the markets it serves were hit hard by the global economic recession.
Moving industrial gas products from the supplier to the distributor to the end user is a complex operation. In a recent poll of industrial gas companies conducted by the Gases and Welding Distributor Association (GAWDA), results indicated that many communication protocols...
In this feature we interview Praxair’s James Baughman, about the company’s North American specialty gases business.
Distributors must focus on solutions that take them from their current business state to a desired future business state. As discussed in my previous article, this is done “Through Customer Driven Continuous Improvement.” (See “Independent Distributors Transforming the Playing Field,” CGI,...
NASA’s Johnson Space Center’s (JSC) Mission Control in Houston, TX, takes control of a mission as soon as a spacecraft is launched from Kennedy Space Center in Florida. But Houston, also known as Space City, has not fired a rocket...
