Announcements of domestic air separation unit builds during 2012 through 2015 indicate that it will be a busy few years for the US air gases business. This is a welcome change from earlier in the decade when economic recessions only...
For many readers of CryoGas International, Chart Industries, Inc. (chartindustries.com) is synonymous with the atmospheric gas industry through the design and manufacture of brazed aluminum heat exchangers (BAHX). These are used at various stages during the cryogenic air separation process, together with...
The worldwide helium market continues to be marked by uncertainty. The future of the US Bureau of Land Management (BLM) helium reservoir remains undecided and is awaiting legislation that will determine its role, as new sources of helium are...
There is approximately 6.2 billion cubic feet of helium gas consumed per year worldwide for use in all market segments with demand increasing by about two percent annually into the near future. From this total consumption, approximately five percent,...
The founder of Weldcoa, Richard Bennett, invented the Sur-Loc™ Pallet in the late 1960s. Since that time the Weldcoa Palletized Process has evolved from an external delivery system, through the use of pallet trucks and trailers, to an...
This past August, in the high desert of eastern Utah, the country’s first helium-only gas well on federal lands was drilled and completed at Harley Dome. The well, the Flatirons Federal 4-1, was completed in the Entrada Sandstone...
nexAir (nexair.com), one of the largest distributors of atmospheric gases and welding supplies in the United States, debuted its Advanced Welding & Cutting Demonstration Lab last month. Located at nexAir’s Walnut St. location in Memphis, Tennessee, the lab is an innovative...
Promoted as a showcase for new technologies that enable fleets and industry to expedite LNG fuel use, Zeus Development Corporation hosted a conference on June 25 and 26 at the Wyndham Hotel in Houston, Texas. The two day...
Welding product manufacturers have always supported the industrial welding distribution channel and have been rewarded by that channel for their efforts. However, because of recent changes in the profile and focus of the welding distributor in the US, and the new...
It is no secret that problems with helium availability over the past two years have impacted several industries that rely on this gas. What may be less known is a major financial opportunity for gas producers to serve the balloon...
