Specialty Gases - North America (S3) – Page 3
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NewsServomex awarded two CQC contracts by Micron
Gas analyst specialist Servomex has been selected for two major Continuous Quality Control (CQC) contracts by Micron Tech, a US-based semiconductor company specialising in computer memory and data storage.
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Maintaining stability in the US specialty gases market
What are the challenges and opportunities in the North American specialty gas containment industry, and what impact has the pandemic had?
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Red Ball Oxygen appoints Vice-President
Red Ball Oxygen has appointed Mark Patten as its Vice-President of Technical Gas Services (TGS).
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PurityPlus® update
As IWDC’s specialty gas program enters its second decade, PurityPlus continues construction of a strong house resting on a well-planned and well-built foundation. More than 15 years ago, several influential IWDC (Independent Welding Distributors Cooperative) members and the staff organised a series of meetings to explore growth initiatives.
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DIY marketing
Marketing is often misunderstood. To many it looks like an insurmountable mountain to climb with every possible view increasing in size, depth, the manpower to accomplish it.
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A life in the specialty gas industry
In the early days of SGD Inc., winters were difficult for its founder and sole employee Frank Scornavacca. “I started SGD in my garage in New Jersey, and for two years I worked in that garage,” Scornavacca told gasworld. “It was pretty cold in the winter I can tell you, ...
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A leap of faith
So, you want to manufacture and sell high purity specialty gases. You can make the case that you have all the resources you need to accomplish that. You have a liquid source of the raw materials, filling equipment, customers, and a desire to increase your sales and profitability of this ...
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Helium recovery via SEPURAN®
Specialty chemicals group Evonik collaborated with Linde Engineering to set up a first-of-its-kind helium purification facility using a hybrid process of membrane and Pressure Swing Adsorption (PSA) technology in Mankota, Canada, four years ago. Alex Evans, Business Development Manager, Membranes, at Evonik Corporation, here explains how SEPURAN® works and the ...
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High-pressure solutions
Grown out of a family home in Munich, Germany, Bauer Compressors Inc. has experienced a whirlwind of a journey to end up with a US base and over 75 years of experience in manufacturing reliable and durable arrays of high-pressure compressors.
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Selecting gas mixers for Modified Atmosphere Packaging (MAP)
Modified Atmosphere Packaging (MAP) is an important tool for extending the shelf life of a wide variety of foods. Examples are shredded cheese, baked goods, ground meat, seafood, nuts and baby formula. MAP also reduces the need for chemical preservatives in the food.
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From a doodle, to a $6m fill plant
When Keen Compressed Gas Co. first started out as an auto parts store selling acetylene to the automotive industry, its founder, Stanley Keen, never imagined it would grow into the medical, specialty and industrial gases business it is today.
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Q&A with William ‘Bill’ Geiger
Q A with William ‘Bill’ Geiger, CEO, Consolidated Sciences (CONSCI)
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CoolSys acquires Richmond Refrigeration Service
CoolSys™, a refrigeration and HVAC services company, has acquired Richmond Refrigeration Service, an established commercial refrigeration and air conditioning service serving Virginia, Maryland, North Carolina and West Virginia.
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DCPC to build new facility in Texas
Aerosol propellants and specialty gases provider Diversified CPC International (DCPC) is to construct a new multi-million dollar manufacturing and distribution facility at the Iron Horse Terminals in Beaumont, Texas.
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Monitoring exposure to ethylene oxide
AMETEK MOCON’s Baseline® 9100 gas analyzer is being used to minimize exposure to the sterilizing agent during coronavirus.
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Covid-19: The ‘snowball’ effect
Since our founding in 2009, Global Calibration Gases has operated under two, hard fast rules. First, we will always be a wholesale provider, never dealing directly with the retail customer. In this way we never compete with the reseller of our products. Second, we only focus on product lines where ...
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Consolidated Sciences
Consolidated Sciences, otherwise known as CONSCI, is a privately held company that began in a garage in 1984. With only a mass spectrometer, a rebuilt gas chromatography/mass spectrometer, and a liquid chromatograph, CONSCI’s Founder and CEO Bill Geiger characterized over 16 refinery streams for carcinogens and carcinogen precursors for the ...
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Portable particle accelerators
Fermilab, America’s premier laboratory for particle physics and accelerator research, is in the process of bringing the world together to discover the role neutrinos play in the universe. More than 1,000 scientists from over 30 countries are building the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE), hosted by Fermilab.
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IWDC Purity Plus Annual Meeting: Day two
Yesterday, Food Packing, CBD Extraction and Cryo-Bio were the main talking points here at the Wild Dunes Resort in South Carolina.
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IWDC PurityPlus Annual Meeting starts tomorrow
Members, industry experts and approved vendors of the IWDC PurityPlus® programme are beginning to gather at the Wild Dunes Resort in the Isle of Palms, South Carolina, for the IWDC PurityPlus Annual Meeting, which starts tomorrow.
