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Features10 minutes with… Jim Herring
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Recovery business
The dramatic rise in helium prices has made it financially attractive for Arencibia to recover exhaust streams that otherwise would not make economic sense. For instance, we are now recovering helium exhaust streams that suffer from very significant dilution, impurities and low volumes.
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New home for growing manufacturer
Tekno Valves North America has been serving the North American compressed gas/liquefied gas marketplace since its founding in 2009 as the exclusive representative and distributor of Tekno Valves. As one of the world’s leading manufacturer’s of industrial, medical, and specialty gas cylinder valves, Tekno Valves currently enjoys market share in ...
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‘Most innovative year yet’
Deemed an essential business during the peak of the coronavirus pandemic, 2020 has been a demanding year for family-owned business Cyl-Tec, as it continued to serve its customers while producing new and innovative products.
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Staying cool in a crisis
Dry ice producers, distributors and equipment makers are bracing themselves for a spike in demand next year, with concerns there will be a tightening in the availability of dry ice for storage and distribution of coronavirus (Covid-19) vaccines.
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Business picks up in third quarter
Hardgoods and gas revenues improved in the third quarter (Q3), according to the latest results of the Baird/gasworld Welding and Industrial Gas Survey.
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CO2 fundamentals and safety, part one
The carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) molecule is composed of one carbon atom covalently bonded to two oxygen atoms. At less than 0.04%, carbon dioxide is still the fourth most common gas present in the earth’s atmosphere. Natural sources of CO 2 include volcanic outgassing, forest fires, biomass decay, ...
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Cryogenic containers set for vital role
One of the biggest influences on our lives and industry in 2021 will be the roll out of the coronavirus (Covid-19) vaccine, and cryogenic containers are set to play a key role in a return to normality. Cryogenic shippers and equipment makers, as well as dry ice producers/distributors and equipment ...
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Getting you back on the road
Eighteen months after the birth of Premier Cryogenic Services, LLC (PCS), the company is busy, backlogged and building for the future. Despite the challenges presented to businesses by the global coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic, PCS has been working hard to provide essential rehabs, retests and repairs of cryogenic equipment from its ...
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Computers Unlimited Users Group Conference
The theme this year, A Digital Transformation , took on several different meanings at the Computers Unlimited/TIMS Software Annual Users Group Conference. For the first time in over 40 years of hosting an in-person event, customers, prospective customers, and vendors watched recorded sessions, listened in on live panel discussions, and ...
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Remote control
During the coronavirus (Covid-19) lockdown, Fives Cryo Inc. did one of its repair jobs remotely with the help of a Go-Pro. At the time, it was thought of as an emergency and temporary measure, a solution to the social distancing restrictions in place to stop the spread of the virus. ...
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Benjamin Franklin’s telemetry advice for 2021
If 2020 has taught us anything, it’s to expect the unexpected. At this time last year, when many of us were charting our 2020 goals, budgets, and projects, who could have accurately forecast the events that were to come? Many of our plans, both professional and personal, were so suddenly ...
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Testing requirements for CO2
In the developed world markets, such as the US, the lion’s share of merchant carbon dioxide (CO2) product is sold to the food and beverage industries, often representing about 70% of total production, and the balance is industrial usage. Then, of this greater 70% food and beverage usage, likely 70% ...
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Numerous challenges in helium exploration
A decade’s worth of news stories on helium shortages and prices have led to a migration of oil gas exploration and production companies (E P) into the helium development space. For any newcomer, there is plenty of romance with helium. Its scarcity, rising prices and high-tech applications have ...
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SEPURAN® Membranes
Since the beginning of the Helium Shortage 3.0, specialty chemicals group Evonik has seen increasing interest in membranes for helium purification, especially in Canada and the US.
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Outlook for helium in microelectronics in Covid-19 era
The economic impact of the Covid-19 pandemic has been devasting to the global economy. During most recessions the more typical or normal behaviour is for consumers to cut spending on discretionary items including technology goods and for businesses to delay investment in new PCs, equipment, to conserve cash and wait ...
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Belief in the Ladder of success
Durell Johnson’s career has come full circle. Twenty years after ending his association with the Ladder Creek Helium Plant, Johnson began 2020 as its new owner. Far from seeing it as a sentimental step back, Johnson has returned to complete a vision of making Ladder Creek one of the most ...
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Turning reserves into reliable supply
It is an exciting time for North American Helium (NAH), but for CEO and Chairman Nick Snyder the focus is to make the upstream helium exploration and production business “boring”.
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Changing helium landscape
Coronavirus (Covid-19) has changed our lives and disrupted business, shifting demands since the start of the global pandemic in March. Helium entered 2020 in short supply, but has the impacted of Covid-19 changed the supply-demand balance? And what is driving demand?
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Full composite cylinders
Over nearly 60 years, composite technologies utilising high strength, lightweight carbon fiber have made significant strides in reducing the weight and increasing the strength properties of many different products used in everyday life. Composites are increasingly used in the manufacture of aircraft, wind turbine blades, bicycles, and cylinders for high ...
