Reporting on the business and technologies
driving today's global industrial gas industry

The compound semiconductor market produces liquid crystal displays (LCDs), light-emitting diodes (LEDs), chip for high speed mobile communication, DVDs, CDs, printers, barcode scanners, instrumentation and more. It is more oriented to the consumer goods market than is the silicon market, and is developing rapidly in Asia with leading producers like Samsung. In this article, we review how the industrial gas industry has been targeting growth in both of these areas.

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The concept is well understood: Instead of transporting banks of high-pressure or liquid cylinders to customer sites and exchanging them for empty cylinders (of course, they are never really empty), gas distributors can reduce delivery costs and customers can pay only for what they use, thanks to microbulk distribution. Microbulk provides the efficiency and economics of bulk without the site preparation work and other costs that typically go along with bulk tanks.

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