The US federal government’s investment in semiconductor production and innovation is gathering pace, as the bodies established by the CHIPS & Science Act of 2022 begin to ramp up.
There was a continued solid picture for gas and welding distributors in the final quarter of 2023, with conditions looking robust by most measures though also continued signs of slowdown and growing caution when set...
The IWDC, the member-owned marketing and purchasing cooperative for industrial gas distributors, including the PurityPlus specialty gas group, gathered in California in February for a three-day event. Christian Annesley was there to capture learnings from the presentations
Chart Industries, the newly enlarged US cryogenics manufacturer, has put out its first sustainability report following its game-changing acquisition of Howden for $4.4bn in March 2023.
New carbon capture projects are being confirmed all the time. Some have storage bolted on and others seek to utilize the CO2. What’s the state of play today in the US and globally? Christian Annesley reports
Demand for merchant carbon dioxide normally runs ahead of supply in North America, and some CO2 production is vulnerable to periodic disruption. So perhaps it could make sense for industrial gas distributors to build their...
At the IWDC’s Gas Meeting in Santa Rosa, the attorney Andrew Kaplan walked through the legal challenges and pitfalls facing those that supply carbon dioxide and specialty gases to support the now-substantially-legal cannabis industry across...
In January this year, the listed US manufacturer ITT Inc. completed its acquisition of the Danish marine cryogens business Svanehøj. Christian Annesley explores what we know so far
As an industry, life sciences is on the move in North America. It is growing quickly – and its development is substantially enabled by cryogenic gases. So let’s take a look.
Moving cryogenic gases is a specialist operation, with tanks and trailers hauled by companies that are dedicated to the business of transport cold-state gas molecules from A to B. This is not a space for...
