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NewsExuding energy for future pathways
In a week full of quarterly financials and the broader backdrop of a year so clearly dominated by Covid-19, it would have been easy to miss the significance of two key stories recently concerning the basic building blocks of the industrial gases industry, writes Rob Cockerill.
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Industrial gases fulfilling potential in health and decarbonisation
Thirty years ago, almost to the day, I joined BOC Gases in the UK. I had completed my Chemical Engineering Masters degree at Imperial College and I was looking forward to setting out on my career.
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The ‘Next Generation EU’ recovery package: great news for green hydrogen
Green hydrogen is likely to get a significant boost it as part of a €750bn EU recovery package, writes Stephen B. Harrison in an exclusive thought leadership column for gasworld.
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Why this crisis changes our outlook
Uniper’s Roland Kuchler describes the view from Singapore and why the Covid-19 pandemic should change our view going forward, on so many levels.
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Covid-19 versus oxygen supply
In the past five days we have seen headlines that oxygen is in short supply across Europe and the US. Unlike the carbon dioxide shortage two years ago, this would, if true, have significantly more consequences and would be a matter of literally life or death!
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Covid-19 and climate change – the defining challenges of our generation
There are many actions in place around the world right now to slow down the spread of the coronavirus. The idea is to flatten the curve of the infection rate and limit the impact of the potentially fatal Covid-19 illness that it causes. As with Covid-19, we also need to ...
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Covid-19’s impact on the North American CO2 industry
The effects on the carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) industry caused by the Covid-19 outbreak are dramatic, writes gasworld Editorial Advisory Board member Sam A. Rushing.
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Pandemic and the new playbook for business
If you asked six people to define ‘culture’ you would get several different answers, especially today. Is it the mission? Or how people dress for work? Or is the values behind the culture?
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Helium: Covid-19 cuts shortage as demand drops
Global helium markets have been impacted by Covid-19 in several ways, writes Phil Kornbluth as the first instalment of insights and thought leadership from gasworld’s Editorial Advisory Board.
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Coronavirus: A reminder of the benefits of digitisation
As businesses and leaders, the time is now to trust, empower and embolden our people, and to unlock and leverage the innovative technologies available to us, writes Rob Cockerill.
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A message from the editor
We knew 2020 would be a significant year for our industry, for you. None of us could have foreseen, however, quite what a significant year this would prove to be for all the wrong reasons. At gasworld, we are here and more committed than ever before to supporting you through ...
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Coronavirus – Questions, caution and new learnings
There are still a great many questions to be answered with Covid-19, much to be learned about the virus, and arguably more to be learned about its containment. There are understandably questions too for our industry, writes Rob Cockerill.
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Exciting, intriguing times in helium
With the launch of gasworld’s Helium Super Summit this October, the scene is set in more ways than one, writes Rob Cockerill. Not only is the scene set in terms of the new normal helium business for post-2021, we now have the stage confirmed for insight, discussion and debate around ...
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Cause for a new national renewables day?
Rob Cockerill reflects on two significant developments in decarbonisation that could arguably bring calls for 2nd March to be a National Renewables Day in the UK.
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From transformation to realisation
The industrial gas year that was, and the year that could be – an Editor’s outlook, by Rob Cockerill.
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Four things we learned in 2019
gasworld Global Managing Editor shares his thoughts on four things that we learned from the industrial gas year in 2019.
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Carbon dioxide review
Thoughts on 2019, and a look ahead to 2020, with Sam A. Rushing, President of Advanced Cryogenics, Ltd.
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E-commerce… what’s your strategy?
Distributors have a variety of e-commerce platforms and strategies to pursue when it comes to selling online. Whether your strategy is to sell to the broader consumer market or to strengthen existing customer ties, take the time to understand the pros and cons of your options and be mindful of ...
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I never knew we did that!
One of my young sales reps approached me some years ago about a large opportunity he had just discovered that involved a major account. This rep had become a trusted consultant to the repair shop superintendent at a major national brewery.
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A carbonless, profitable and equitable future
The UK Committee on Climate Change’s (CCC) report published last week states that the UK can end its contribution to global warming “within 30 years” by setting an ambitious new target to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions to zero by 2050.
