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Oxygen – Applications and distribution

2018-07-05T13:19:00+01:00By Rob Cockerill, published in gasworld magazine

So often described as the gas of life, oxygen is the most fundamental and recognisable of the air gases. As essential to industry as it is to life, oxygen is among the top five most widely used chemicals in the world. It is arguably the industrial gas which needs no ...

Controlling costs with vending solutions

2018-07-05T09:29:00+01:00By Agnes H. Baker

Companies are always looking for ways to be more efficient. Carefully controlling inventory is one very good way to do that.

Custom Gas Solutions, LLC

2018-07-05T09:45:00+01:00By Agnes H. Baker

Situated in North Carolina’s Research Triangle, the largest high technology research and science park in North America, is a busy lab which produces specialty gases for a wide range of customers — Custom Gas Solutions.

Large-capacity hydrogen storage systems

2018-07-05T09:56:00+01:00By Agnes H. Baker

Agility Fuel Solutions is in the business of making alternative fuel storage and delivery systems. With headquarters in Costa Mesa, California, the company is a leading global provider of compressed natural gas (CNG), liquid natural gas (LNG), propane, and hydrogen fuel systems, Type 4 composite cylinders, and modular battery packs ...

Improving the grade

2018-07-05T10:06:00+01:00By Agnes H. Baker

The rise and fall of economic indicators makes headline news daily, yet the health of the bones of that economy, our nation’s infrastructure, goes largely unreported until a bridge collapses or a dam lets go.

It takes a supply chain to create an innovation

2018-07-05T10:12:00+01:00By Jemima Owen-Jones

It has been my experience, over the past 33 years in the gas/welding industry, that innovations do not spring forth from a vacuum, explains Lockhouse CEO Jim Glessner. During my industry tenure, we have seen trading, technology and vendor/customer partners come together to invent integrated and customized solutions.

10 minutes with...Steve Tarrant

2018-07-05T10:35:00+01:00By Jemima Owen-Jones

Take 10 minutes out with Steve Tarrant, Bulk and Specialty Gas Manager at Weldstar, as he discusses the company’s role in the gases industry, observations on emerging markets, and the importance of custom solutions.

Oxygen in China

2018-07-05T13:30:00+01:00By Victor Leung, published in gasworld magazine

Since the China government started to tackle the problem of excess capacity in various industries seriously, and implemented supply side reform a few years ago, many production sites have been cracked down and closed.

Safe cylinder packages

2018-07-05T13:52:00+01:00By Dr Roy S Irani, published in gasworld magazine

Both the words ‘standard’ and ‘safe’ have played an important part of my life working with gas cylinder packages over the past several decades. So you can imagine my joy when the Editor requested that I write an article as per the above title.

Oxygen safety under pressure

2018-07-05T14:11:00+01:00By Gareth Pemberton, published in gasworld magazine

GCE Group’s Gareth Pemberton says the global gas control industry must continue to pioneer enhanced adiabatic shock testing standards to improve the safety of oxygen systems.