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Hank Grieco’s experience of the recent Gulf Coast Conference suggests this growing event is one to mark on your calendar this year.

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Gas Panel Meeting held in Atlanta on March 15 in conjunction with PITTCON saw further discussion on upcoming revisions of the 1997 Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Traceability...

Concoa’s Daniel Cruz looks at practical issues for those targeting world markets.

To most, the key technology revolution is an electronic one, where advances like the internet, wireless communications, and the resulting instantaneous access to information are altering the way we work and live. The proverbial “Dick Tracy Watch” with its built in...

The convergence of several chemical reclassification and labeling initiatives being implemented in the global business arena to boost health, safety, and environmental protection to an unprecedented level is poised to have a monumental impact on the world’s industrial sector. 

As the US economy seems to linger in its two and a half year hangover from the worldwide financial crisis that began in 2008, one of the symptoms of the “night before” has been a slowdown in merger and...

In the early 1990s the Idaho National Laboratory (INL) needed a method to open containers that stored nuclear contaminates. There were available options that could open the containers, but they had the potential of creating large amounts of contaminated secondary waste...

The production and use of fossil fuels constitutes an extremely important part of the global economy. Both oil and natural gas are integral to any country’s domestic energy policy. In fact, based on 2009 estimates, the US is, by far,...

Despite bumps in the economic landscape, demand for nitrogen has remained fairly steady in the US markets since our last report. In this article, we examine the sectors that have kept the nitrogen market relatively buoyant. Nitrogen production plants,...

R.W. Baird & Co. (www.rwbaird.com) has been surveying industrial distributors (including some gas distributors) for more than three years. In 2010 Baird and CryoGas International partnered to provide a survey of quarterly results focused on US packaged gas...