Wednesday, April 29, 2009

Lawrence County Chamber Sponsors 2009 Business & Industry Expo

Exhibitors ranging from our local industrial base to retail shops will be featured at the Chamber's Business and Industry Expo next Wednesday, May 6 from 10:00a.m. until 6:00p.m.at the Lawrenceburg Rotary Park.

The Expo is designed to give Lawrence County citizens a chance to see and experience the wide range of services available and products being manufactured in Lawrence County, all in one place, with one visit.

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First Nano and Airgas to Exhibit at NSTI Nanotech 2009

(Nanowerk News) First Nano, a division of CVD Equipment Corporation, and channel partner Airgas, will be participating in the 2009 NSTI Nanotech Expo to be held in Houston, TX from May 5-6 at the George R. Brown Convention Center.

NSTI Nanotech 2009 is the world’s largest and most anticipated annual nanotechnology event. Now in its 12th year, they’re expecting more than 5,000 attendees and 250 exhibitors from academia, government, startups and Fortune 1000 companies---uniting innovators to bring nanotechnology from the laboratories to the marketplace.


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Tuesday, April 21, 2009

Jadoo Power to receive funding under American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) to advance fuel cell technologies

Folsom, California--Jadoo Power is one of two companies in California to receive funding as part of the $41.9 million American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) through the Department of Energy to further advance fuel cell technologies and markets.

Jadoo Power, together with several industry leaders including; NASCAR Media Group, Acumentrics Corporation, Lynch Diversified Vehicles, the City of Folsom and Airgas, will demonstrate the efficacy of an integrated solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) power system in field use. The SOFC system will be a 1 kilowatt power supply fueled by hydrogen derived from propane. Propane is an excellent source of hydrogen and a fuel with an existing infrastructure—making it a market-ready solution.

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A new market out of thin air

Airgas' campaign for Reklaim program creates fresh sales opportunities

Finding sales opportunities where none previously existed is an art, but not a magical one—it involves producing a product efficiently and economically, and marketing it compellingly.

For Airgas Specialty Products, the country's largest distributor of industrial, medical and specialty gases, the introduction of its new Reklaim refrigerant recycling initiative a year ago also required overturning entrenched industry norms.

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Friday, April 10, 2009

Airgas Gaspro's 1909 line was pipe, bricks

Airgas Gaspro yesterday celebrates its centennial anniversary in Hawai'i. Airgas Gaspro opened its doors in 1909 as Hawaiian Gas Products, a small, family-owned business that made bricks, pipe and, eventually, industrial and medical gases such as oxygen and nitrogen.

Today, it has grown to nine locations — three on O'ahu, three on Hawai'i, two on Maui and one on Kaua'i — and generates annual revenues of $40 million.

"Our employees are the true heart and soul of our organization," Mark Mahler, area vice president of Airgas Gaspro, said in a statement. "We have more employees with 20 years of tenure than we do employees with less than five years, and many of our staff are members of 'legacy' families, where several generations have served as Gaspro employees."

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