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NewsAir Water builds new rare gas plant
To expand the stable supply and sales of rare gases xenon and krypton, Air Water is building a new facility to produce them in the cryogenic air separation unit (ASU) which has been operated in Kobe Steel’s Kakogawa Plant since October 2017, The Gas Review reported.
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Delivery of dry ice under nationwide control from June
The market of liquid carbon dioxide (LCO 2 ) and dry ice, which has suffered a tight supply for several years, is now facing a more difficult situation for procurement, The Gas Review reports.
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Oxygen in China
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.
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Futamura Chemical enters PSA gas generator market
Comprehensive chemical manufacturer Futamura Chemical has more than a 60-year track record in activated carbon, one type of adsorbent. In January last year, they acquired Adsorption Technology Industries, who mainly makes and sells PSA-related products, as a subsidiary to emerge as a PSA system gas generator manufacturer this spring, reported ...
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Air Water to set up two new VSUs
Industrial gas company Air Water has revealed plans to construct its 17 th and 18 th VSUs in Japan.
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The electronics gases business in China
In 2016, China manufactured 2.1 billion sets of mobile phone, a 13.6% increase from 1.81 billion sets in 2015, and a one billion units increase over five years. This is just a simple example of how the electronics industry in China is booming, at an astounding rate.
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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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Linde hands over Marlin BOG reliquefaction plant
Linde Engineering has officially handed over the Marlin boil-off gas reliquefaction plant to Petronas’ production subsidiary, Malaysia LNG.
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The emergence of hydrogen towns in China
Hydrogen as a clean energy has been promoted in China in recent years, while other developed countries have already set up and are expanding their hydrogen infrastructure. China is now allocating efforts to catch up.
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Distributive energy and LNG in China
Back in 2011, the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) of the China government, together with other departments, promulgated a document titled Guidance of Developing Natural Gas Distributive Energy (Fa Gai Neng Yuan[2011] No. 2196) (the Guidance) in which it said the overall energy utilisation efficiency could achieve 70% ...
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Air Products’ Malaysia pipeline on-stream
Air Products has announced its pipeline in Malaysia, for global leading printing company HP, has come on-stream.
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Pfeiffer Vacuum opens first service centre in Malaysia
Pfeiffer Vacuum, a leading provider of high-tech vacuum solutions, has opened a new service centre in Malaysia.
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Challenges in China’s medical oxygen business
The controversial battle between GMP oxygen supply and PSA oxygen generation. By Victor Leung.
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Linde expands production capacity in Malaysia
Linde Malaysia, a member of the Linde Group, will invest €30m ($35m) to expand its gas and liquid production capacities to meet growing customer demands in central Malaysia.
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Joint venture: Messer invests in Malaysia
Industrial gases specialist Messer has signed a joint venture agreement with Malaysian firm Universal Industrial Gas Sdn Bhd. Messer owns more than 60% of the company’s shares.
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Bulk gases in China
Although the commercial operation of the industrial gases industry in China actually took off in the mid-1990s, already decades behind the Western developed markets, the growth of the Chinese industrial gases market has been very impressive since and this market is now ranked the second-largest in the world by value. ...
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Specialty gases in China
China reported that its gross domestic growth (GDP) for the first three quarters of 2016 achieved RMB 52.9bn ($7.6bn), an increase of 6.7% over the same period in 2015 (increase in GDP for the first quarter and first half year are also 6.7%), and the increase of the secondary industry ...
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Trends in asset management
As an important and valuable asset in the industrial gas business, gas cylinders are being monitored closely by gas companies using cylinder tracking systems as a means of asset management to prevent loss of property and even to recover lost assets. However, when the cylinder tracking system was first launched ...
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Internet+ industrial gas in China
As already mentioned in several articles before, ‘Internet+’ has become the buzz word in China since Prime Minister Li Keqiang made the statement in his Government Work Report in March last year (2015). The sluggish China steel industry is already trying to look for the ‘magic pill’ in this idea ...
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The cylinder gas business in China
gasworld talks to various parties in the Chinese cylinder business to discuss its development and track the challenges that it faces going forward, including the need to improve both efficiencies and asset management.
