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Praxair buys five Airgas branch locations in Canada
Industrial gases major Praxair has acquired the assets of five Airgas branch locations in western Canada, including Calgary, Red Deer, and Edmonton, Alberta, and Regina and Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. Airgas said the sale divestiture enables it to redeploy capital resources to its core business in British Columbia.
Asahi Kasei opens plastics sales office in Mexico
Asahi Kasei Plastics is commemorating its 12-year anniversary with the opening of a new sales office in Mexico, in which it hopes to further expand the company’s global presence. Asahi Kasei Plastics says it is expanding worldwide with new facilities, distributorships and license agreements.
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Recover valuable olefins from offgas streams
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HP Insight: Global solutions wanted for growing industry
World War II was one of the defining events that drove innovation for the hydrocarbon processing industry (HPI). During the 1940s, solutions were needed to resolve shortages of transportation fuels an..
HP Reliability: Pumps and the Bhopal connection
In the 2012 June issue of Hydrocarbon Processing, our readers will find a highly informative article that should remind equipment specialists of their professional and ethical responsibilities. These ..
HP Integration Strategies: Making the business case for reliability
The global process industries lose $20 billion, or 5% annual production, due to unscheduled downtime and poor quality. ARC estimates that almost 80% of these losses are preventable. In fact, 40% of th..
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- Beware Egypt's smokestack onshoring as cement exports surge 1/17
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