Westbury, NY-based General Welding Supply is a wholesale distributor of industrial, medical, specialty, and cryogenic gases as well as a full line of welding supplies. Family owned and operated since 1923, employees share a commitment to providing customers throughout the...
DOT pressures vessels (tubes) require periodic inspections to evaluate the integrity and safety of each vessel. After years of use over land and sea, it is important that authorized holders of Requalification Identification Numbers (RIN) conduct a thorough examination of each...
The cryogenics industry has changed drastically in the past ten years. Although the general population may know very little about the business, those of us in the industry realize its significance as it impacts medicine, construction, transportation, electronics, and numerous other...
We define core specialty gases as all specialty gases except those sold into the electronics industries, but including specialty gas products sold into the medical market. In “The Next Big Deal for Specialty Gases” (CryoGas, February 2013,...
Precision cleaning of high value products has become more critical as products have become smaller and more complex. Traditional cleaning technologies such as aqueous and solvent based systems are increasingly not able to meet these new cleaning...
The current proliferation of electronic devices, including smart phones, music players, tablets, and cameras has created a huge demand for semiconductor memory chips. New and more complex applications and functionality for many of these devices is adding to that demand.
In today’s economy, in which metal fabrication is moving towards commoditization, life science offers specialization, value, and synergies to industrial gas companies. Life science markets are diverse and cover a broad range of applications and research including: biobanks (population based, therapeutic, and...
The light emitting diodes (LED) industry continues to make great technological advances that will speed the replacement of conventional incandescent and fluorescent bulbs. This rapid growth will require increasing volumes of high purity hydrogen used in the production process of these...
From March 18–21, for the first time ever, the 2013 Pittsburgh Conference on Analytical Chemistry and Applied Spectroscopy (Pittcon) (pittcon.org) came to the Philadelphia Conference Center in downtown Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. By all indications, it won’t be the...
Dynamic changes to R&D processes, tools, technical challenges, and funding/business models will highlight the upcoming SEMICON West 2013 (semiconwest.org) exhibition. Product displays of the latest semiconductor manufacturing technology, components, and subsystems will also be an integral part of SEMICON...
