BOC Healthcare, the UK’s largest medical gases business, has been accredited by the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) for the storage of human reproductive cells (gametes) at its Cryobank facility.
Air Liquide has reaffirmed its presence in the medical oxygen cylinder industry with the “true first-to-the market” cylinder with a digital gauge – the Intelli-Ox™.
The Compressed Gas Association (CGA) (cganet.com) was established in 1913 to promote industry self-regulation and to develop new safety standards in response to technical advances. Today, the compressed gas industry (industry) can look back on a century of successful self-regulation that...
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...
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...
Up until 40 years ago oxygen was only produced commercially by the cryogenic distillation of air. Product was either delivered as gas or a cryogenic liquid (LOX). This cryogenic process is very energy intensive, results in a high operating cost...
The European Commission has approved of Linde AG’s purchase of Air Products’ Continental-European homecare business. The deal, which has an enterprise value of €590m and was given unconditional approval yesterday 18th April, is expected to...
Cavagna Group has presented it’s new website www.viproxy.it dedicated to the group’s new integrated valve for oxygen therapy.
Dr Jessica Herzstein, Global Medical Director at Air Products, has been appointed to the US Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF). Herzstein is one of the newest members and the first physician appointed from the manufacturing...
This week sees a hub of activity take place in Brussels as the European Industrial Gas Association’s (EIGA) 2012 workshop unfolds.
