Westlake Securities (www.westlake securities.com) hosted the very successful New Frontiers in Natural Gas Conference on November 3, 2011, at the W Austin Hotel in Austin, Texas. Westlake Securities is a middle market investment banking firm that services many industries including oil...
nexAir (www.nexair.com), a Memphis, Tennessee- based company with revenues over $100 million, is a dominant force in the industrial gas markets in the southeastern region of the US. Its warehouse team, under the leadership of John Climer, helped establish an improved...
Bryan Keen, GAWDA’s (www.gawda.org) President/Chairman, and Michael Tiller, Compressed Gas Association’s (CGA) (www.cga.net) President and CEO, announced at the opening session of GAWDA’s Annual Meeting a new relationship that will provide GAWDA distributor members with free access to CGA’s electronic safety...
Linking continuous improvement (CI) through a company’s culture to its strategic business goals is imperative to the successful implementation of CI. For example, General Electric links forty percent of top management bonuses to successful implementation of CI. Without such linkage, CI...
Our second annual Best of CryoGas International proved as difficult yet as enjoyable as our first. Poring over a year’s worth of images spoke to our creative sides as we debated the merits of advertisements, graphics,...
The American Welding Society Foundation (www.aws.org) was established in 1989 with a single mission—to develop funding to support welding scholarships. In 1991, money was set aside to support the first fellowship, which was awarded for $20,000. Since that time, the Foundation...
During the week of September 19, 2011, I had the great pleasure of visiting Beijing, China and attending the Chinese Industrial Gases Industry Association’s (CIGIA) 13th China International Exhibition on Gases Technology, Equipment, and Applications. I also had the privilege of...
North America’s largest metal forming, fabricating, welding, and finishing event heads to McCormick Place, Chicago, IL, November 14–17, 2011. FABTECH will offer four full days of activities and provide its projected 32,000 attendees with unlimited opportunities to network, learn, and see...
CryoGas International publisher, John Campbell, recently met with Anne Roby, President of both Praxair Asia and Praxair Electronics worldwide, to talk about the company’s growth in China and its bright future prospects. Roby is based in Shanghai.
Nearly 20,000 solar experts from around the world traveled to San Francisco in July to connect with solar professionals and attend specialized workshops and seminars during Intersolar North America’s fourth and largest annual exhibition and conference. Co-located with...
