HFC, for example, an industrial gas, has 11, 000 times the greenhouse effect of CO2.
Praxair (PX), not a household name but it is the largest producer of industrial gas in both North America and South America.
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This will drive growth in sales of construction and mining equipment, diesel and natural gas engines, and industrial gas turbines manufactured by Caterpillar.
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Should the acquisition go through, it would create the largest single industrial gas company in North America and one of the largest in the world.
With many markets, such as aerospace, industrial gas turbine and commercial building remaining soft, and the residential construction market being hampered by severe winter weather, Alcoa says that it will strengthen its performance by developing innovative products that add value for its customers.
In the industrial-gas business small players have as much chance as the giants in grasping big opportunities, Mr Messer argues.
In the end, operations in Germany, North America and Britain were sold to Air Liquide, to make it the biggest industrial-gas producer in Europe.
Vivek Nair, 23, of Singapore, who started Damascus Fortune, an organization in India that has developed a technology to produce carbon nanotubes and carbon nanofibers from industrial flue gas.
After the nasty price shocks and shortages in the 1970s, U.S. industrial consumption of natural gas plunged by 30%.
But it also produces substantial quantities of natural gas, industrial machinery, auto parts and timber and exports them to many different consumer markets.
Carbon trading was introduced as part of the Kyoto Protocol's goal to reduce certain industrial nations' greenhouse gas emissions to below 1990 levels by 2012.
For homeowners who heat with gas, for industrial users and for electricity customers, they are great.
It is often actually cheaper to process the gas into some industrial product locally and then ship the product.
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The attack came on the heels of industrial unrest at the Algerian gas facility, where hundreds of Algerian workers went on strike June 21.
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Since oil is easily substituted for natural gas in many industrial and electrical turbines, prices of the two commodities tend to be correlated (coal less so).
The same is not true for, say, HFC-134a, a gas with various industrial uses that delivers more than 1, 000 times more warming than carbon dioxide, mass for mass.
Spain's Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar said after the summit that the issue of the liberalisation of electricity and gas markets for industrial and other business users had been resolved.
The latest technology builds on the company's tracking and location systems experience in a variety of market sectors ranging from defence and security to consumer, industrial, and oil and gas.
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Natural gas export is a sensitive political issue and more than one industrial company has complained that such exports would raise domestic gas prices and hence harm American business and the economy in general.
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Slow growth in demand from the U.S. will be a drag on price appreciation for industrial metals, oil, natural gas and coal.
Restrictions will be relaxed in sectors as diverse as civil aviation, construction development, industrial parks, petroleum and natural gas, commodity exchanges, credit-information services and mining.
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Its arcane rules require 55 countries (who must represent at least 55% of the industrial world's greenhouse-gas emissions in 1990) to ratify the pact before it comes into force.
The strongest economies of the high-income world ( Norway, Canada, Australia, some Persian Gulf countries) produce oil and gas, coal, industrial minerals or food for the expanding global marketplace.
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The startup also plans to use the money to develop products for processing wastewater and delivering purified water for industrial operations such as oil and gas or beverage production, Green said.
We are at a turning point in human history, where the industrial age has finally run out of gas.
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The continent's primary industrial engine imports 60% of its gas and oil needs.
He cited hiring especially at industrial factories, and at oil and gas companies.
There is significant demand potential for natural gas in the consumer and industrial markets due to its cost effectiveness and environmental friendliness.
Much of Sempra's trading consists in providing price hedges to industrial customers to smooth their costs of gas, electricity, steel, zinc or anything else.
Reducing soot (and also ozone, an industrial pollutant that acts as a greenhouse gas) would not stop the summer sea ice disappearing, but it might delay the process by a decade or two.
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