Multigenerational Family Business – Keys to Success
Special thanks to Abydee Butler Moore (Butler Gas Products), Brad Dunn (CK Supply), Bryan Keen (Keen Gas), Brad Peterson & Troy Elmer (MWSCO), Nicole Kissler (Norco), Eric Wood (OE Meyer), Tom Garrity (Compass Point) and Maura Garvey (Intelligas Consulting) for their insightful contributions. Public companies across all major industries (i.e., Apple, Microsoft, NVIDIA, etc.) dominate […]
Resilience Keys to Success
Thanks to the Gases and Welding Distributors Association (GAWDA) for publishing the full article their Q1 2025 issue of “Gases & Welding Today” magazine. Over the past 5+ years, resilience has become a hot topic in almost every area of life. From the best-selling books such as “Option B” by Sheryl Sandberg and Adam Grant […]
Update on Hydrogen Policies…how are we doing?
Thanks to Richard Boocock of Boocock Advisory Ltd. for his insightful contributions. For close to a decade, Hydrogen (H2) has been touted as one of the keys to the energy transition. It will play a critical role acting as both an energy carrier enabling the storage and transportation of renewable electricity (i.e., from solar and […]
Generative AI for Industrial Gases
Special thanks to Allison Earlbeck (CEO, Earlbeck Gases), David Schaer (President, Computers Unlimited) and Dave Beltz (CIO, Trinseo) for their contributions. It seems as if 2023 was the year the “world” first heard about Generative AI (Gen AI). It was clearly one of the most impactful stories driven by remarkable technological progress that matched or surpassed […]
Leveraging Advanced Data Analytics
Special thanks to Elizabeth Wallace (TrackAbout), Eric Wise (Otodata) and Morgan Morris (CO2Meter) for their contributions. As consumers, many of us enjoy streaming services such as Netflix which seemingly has the widest variety of entertainment choices at an affordable price, “on-demand.” In addition, we also enjoy e-Commerce companies like Amazon which have virtually everything you […]
Blue Hydrogen – Past, Present and Future
Thanks to David Burns, Makini Byron and Rita Rodriguez of Linde for their contributions. The energy transition continues to be building momentum worldwide with more than 2/3 of the Fortune Global 500 having made significant climate commitments, and over 3/4 now reporting annual emissions performance. One of the solutions being explored to meet global decarbonization […]
Sustainability Now: Greening Your Company
Thanks to Scott Vanderburg (President and CEO, Reliant Holdings), Andy Castiglione (President, WestAir), and Jillian Evanko (CEO and President, Chart Industries) for their contributions. Sustainability, in a business context, seeks to prevent the depletion of natural resources, so that they will remain available for the long term. The United Nations (UN) has defined it more […]
U.S. Reshoring & Industrial Gas Opportunities
For decades, companies across industries would seek out manufacturing possibilities around the world – taking advantage of less expensive labor, cheaper rents, and relaxed regulations. However, over the last 10 years or so, the tide has begun to turn, and companies are gradually bringing back more of their manufacturing operations to the U.S. There are […]
Customer Service & CRM – Reloaded
Thanks to Brent Wingerter (CK Supply), Dave Bent (ECI/EvolutionX eCommerce), Elisabete Gondim (Messer-US), and Dave Beltz (former CIO of Covanta and Versum Materials) for their contributions. Customer service (CS) in the B2B environment is often not a visible area of the company, and frequently overshadowed by the trendier “customer experience” and “customer success” teams. However, when […]
Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Industrial Gases
Thanks to Dr. Dexin Luo (Director of AI, Linde), David Schaer (President, Computers Unlimited), Hector Villareal (President, Weldcoa) for their contributions. The term Artificial Intelligence or “AI” has been around for close to 60 years. However, over the last 5-10 years as computing power caught up with AI’s large data processing requirements, use cases across […]