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FeaturesIn focus...Food and beverage technologies
The food and beverage industry has enjoyed the benefits of using industrial gases and technologies for decades, improving food quality, preservation and safety in increasingly intricate ways. This In Focus… will explore three key applications in the food and beverage sector and the latest trends shaping them.
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Carbon Clean Solutions interview
gasworld interviews Aniruddha Sharma, CEO of Carbon Clean Solutions Limited, about the company’s continued progress in the field of carbon capture and what the next steps are for its patented CO 2 separation solvent technology making carbon capture commercially attractive.
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Asia-Pacific Industrial Gas Conference 2018 preview
The Renaissance Kuala Lumpur Hotel in Malaysia is the venue for gas world’s fourth conference in the Asia-Pacific region this December, where the focus will be on new and existing industrial gas markets alike – and how companies can maximise the opportunities at their disposal.
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Regional markets – Focus on South Asia
A recent report by a leader in global finance, PriceWaterhouseCooper (PwC), suggests that by 2050 India will be the second-largest economy in the world, in terms of GDP based on purchasing power parity.
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Hot topic: The ‘Belt and Road’
Victor Leung explores the new initiative in China and what this means for the industrial gas and equipment industry.
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Regional markets – Global update
After a rather disappointing year for the global industrial gases business in 2015, many hoped that 2016 would mark the start of a much-needed recovery. Yet, as all major industrial gas companies released their second quarter results, there was little sign of any notable improvement.
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Regional markets: Focus on South East Asia
Last month, our regional focus highlighted the industrial gas markets of the more developed nations in the South Pacific, analysing how future growth may be sought from the developed markets of Singapore and Australia. This month, we focus on some of the smaller, yet fastest-growing markets in the region.
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Better times ahead
When The Linde Group revealed its first quarter 2017 results on 28th April, it completed a week of seemingly positive financials among the major players. So what are these signs of encouragement, and how much can we read into them?
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The cylinder business
Tony Edwards, Managing Director of Luxfer Gas Cylinders Europe, talks packaged gases growth with Rob Cockerill and explains why cylinder manufacturers are waiting for markets to catch-up.
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Regional markets – Focus on India/Asia
As 2017 begins, India is in something of a transition, no longer the world’s fastest-growing economy according to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and in the midst of a self-imposed cash crisis. Here we explore the wider region’s gases business in 2015, and the market trends of note, with gas ...
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Developments in cryogenic pumps
An interview with Brice Lemaire, Sales Manager, and Ivan Lewon, Operations Manager, at ACD Cryo.
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Helium recovery, recycling and purification
The helium story began in 1868 when French astronomer Pierre Jules Cesar Janssen noticed a yellow line in the sun’s spectrum whilst studying a total solar eclipse. The story goes that the English astronomer Sir Norman Lockyer identified this line could not have been produced by any known element at ...
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Regional markets – Focus on South East Asia
A mixed outlook has prevailed in South East Asia in recent years, as undoubted growth prospects have been visibly tempered by an uncharacteristically volatile economic landscape in China and the many splintered effects of this on global markets such as commodities.
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10 minutes with...Carl Jackson
Take 10 minutes out with Carl Jackson, Head of Electronics, Technology and Innovation at The Linde Group, as he discusses the opening of the group’s new R D centre in Taiwan and what it means for both the region and the industry.
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Regional markets – Focus on Asia
Asia is the world’s largest and most populous continent, covering 8.7% of the Earth’s total surface area and around 30% of its land area. With approximately 4.3 billion people, it hosts no less than 60% of the world’s current human population too. Given its size and diversity, the region differs ...
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Regional markets – Global update
As the 2015 industrial gas year drew to a close, many of the ongoing trends within the industry – and externally – showed no signs of abating. Indeed, midway through 2016 these same dynamics appear to continue; though underlying growth in sales and volumes generally remains relatively strong, the global ...
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Social responsibility – How capitalism can make it sustainable
John Keynes and Winston Churchill were both exceptional proponents of free markets and capitalism. Keynes proffered that, “Capitalism is the astounding belief that the wickedest of men will do the wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone.”
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Hydrogen supply and demand
Hydrogen is the most abundant element in the universe whether measured by mass or number of molecules, and is also number one in the industrial gas world based on the number of molecules produced. So, how much hydrogen is produced in the world each year? Such a simple question, unfortunately, ...
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What is a hydrogen fuel cell?
Consisting of a single electron orbiting a single proton, hydrogen is the simplest element in the universe – but this simple element can release almost three-times more energy than natural gas. The fact that hydrogen fuel comes with zero carbon emissions (its only by-product is water and heat), has made ...
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The cutting-edge – Industrial gases in cutting and welding
Cutting and welding plays, and will continue to play, an integral role in both infrastructure development and the manufacturing sector, especially in the production of vehicles, ships and heavy equipment. Likewise, industrial gas and equipment is fundamental to the success and future development of cutting and welding applications.
