Packaged gas is the backbone of the industrial gases industry. It supplies oxygen, acetylene, argon, and carbon dioxide, plus specialty gases and much more, in high-pressure cylinders and small tanks to hundreds of thousands of businesses across the world.
Small-volume gas storage lies at the heart of the industry and substantially shapes its public profile. Everything from power welding shops to science laboratories, breweries to hospitals, plus myriad small-scale manufacturers, are using cylinders or microbulk tanks to maintain crucial gas supply.
At the same time, behind every vessel lies a supply network that varies substantially from region to region. From the indepedendent distributors active in the US to the majors’ direct-delivery dominance in parts of Europe, and the mixed up models seen in Asia and Latin America, the global packaged gases market is anything but uniform.
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