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The Priestley Centre, 10 Priestley Road
Surrey Research Park
Guildford
GU2 7XY
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Through its PGS line of business, BOC supplies gas and related solutions to the chemicals, petroleum, glass, water services, electronic packaging, fibre optics, hydrogen energy, metals and food industries. BOC helps meet customer needs in a variety of ways, from the supply of a single gas or application through to designing, constructing and operating fully integrated gas and utilities schemes.The BOC Group, which serves two million customers in more than 50 countries, is one of the largest and most global of the world's leading gases companies. It employs some 44,500 people worldwide and had annual sales of over £4.3 billion in 2003. Further information about The BOC Group may be obtained on the Internet at www.boc.com The BOC Group has an international portfolio of companies grouped for management control and reporting into three lines of business: Process Gas Solutions, Industrial and Special Products, and BOC Edwards. It also has a specialist logistics business, Gist. |
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BOC has installed a state-of-the-art liquid carbon dioxide plant in Multan, northern Pakistan. The 60 ton-per-day plant, which began operations earlier this year, is capable of producing International Society of Beverage Technology-compliant CO2. The plant is the first of its kind in Pakistan to serve the country’s expanding core of local and international beverage producers. |
04 November 2006 |
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A North Wales student has helped the University of Sheffield complete a hat-trick of wins of the BOC Award for the Best Chemical Engineering Student at a gala awards evening in London. |
30 September 2006 |
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Following announcement of its equity position in Asia Union Electronic Chemical Corporation, BOC Edwards announced today that AUECC is moving forward with plans to supply wet process chemicals to the growing electronics manufacturing industry in China, and has formed an equity joint venture with Shanghai Huayi (Group) Company. The new venture is called Shanghai Huayi Microelectronic Material Co. Ltd. |
29 September 2006 |
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BOC Edwards announced today that it has received an order from Akrion for 19 additional chemical blend and delivery modules to support Goldfinger Mach2HP megasonic wafer cleaning tools at a major Asian fab. |
28 September 2006 |
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BOC Edwards, a global supplier of materials and subsystems for electronics manufacturing, announced today it has successfully completed a two-year fluorine qualification program with Tokyo Electron Limited, Japan, a major manufacturer of semiconductor production equipment. The BOC Edwards' Generation-F80 prototype fluorine generator has supplied up to 80 l/hr to multiple TELFORMULA 300 mm LPCVD tools at TEL/AT's Tohoku, Japan facility. |
27 September 2006 |
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BOC plans to increase its focus on its independent distributor channel and has identified opportunities for improvement following a Distributor Advisory Council meeting in Saratoga, N.Y. |
26 September 2006 |
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Forklift trucks will soon be the latest vehicles powered by clean and efficient hydrogen energy, thanks to an agreement between BOC, one of the world’s largest industrial gases companies, and Cellex Power Products Inc., the leader in fuel cell power solutions for industrial vehicles. |
25 September 2006 |
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BOC, one of the world's leading helium suppliers, has recently opened the largest commercial helium facility in China, a distribution center located in Suzhou. |
24 September 2006 |
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With the ability to deliver oxygen up to six times better than the mouth to mouth technique, LifeLine and LifeLine-PRO, the resuscitator kits from oxygen specialist BOC Medical are essential lifesaving tools for the dental practitioner. |
24 September 2006 |
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Murray Hill, New Jersey, U.S., July 21, 2004, BOC (NYSE:BOX) will show bakers how they can achieve a perfect recipe, time after time, with the company’s range of technology-based, value-added solutions on display at the International Baking Industry Exposition in Las Vegas, Nevada. |
24 September 2006 |
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Managing an entire system of over 1500 vacuum pumps as well as multiple exhaust management systems in a manufacturing environment where downtime can rise above tens of thousands of dollars per hour is a challenge that has been successfully met by monitoring and reporting specialists at BOC Edwards. |
24 September 2006 |
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The BOC Gh2ost, being tested on the remote island of Shetland, off the north coast of Scotland, is expected to be able to travel around the world on less than the equivalent of two gallons of petrol; using 25 watts, a fraction of the power a light bulb uses. |
24 September 2006 |
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Intervent, the new food safety technology and consulting arm of BOC, is providing food and beverage manufacturers with a single source for addressing their plants food safety needs. |
24 September 2006 |
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MIG Production Co. Ltd, a joint venture between Thai Industrial Gases PCL and Bangkok Industrial Gas Company Ltd has been awarded a long-term contract to supply 800 tonnes a day of oxygen to a new mono ethylene glycol project operated by TOC Glycol Co. Ltd. in Map Ta Phut, Thailand. |
24 September 2006 |
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BOC Edwards, an integrated supplier of gas, chemical, vacuum and exhaust management solutions to the flat panel and semiconductor industries, has received a major vacuum systems order from Samsung Electronics. Over 60 vacuum systems will be supplied for Samsung’s Generation 7 thin film transistor-liquid crystal display manufacturing facility in Taenjong, South Korea. |
23 September 2006 |
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BOC Edwards, a global supplier of materials, equipment and services to the microelectronics manufacturing industry, announced today it will construct a 60-tonnes per year high-purity silane transfill facility in Kunshan, Suzhou, China. Local distribution facilities, known as transfills, compress bulk gas into cylinders for shipment to customer sites. |
23 September 2006 |
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Hong Kong Oxygen, a joint venture between BOC and Air Liquide, will construct a new air separation unit to supply Guangzhou Iron & Steel’s steel making operations in the Pearl River region of southern China. |
23 September 2006 |
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Balloons are not just kids’ play. They are serious business, and whatever your business a new website from BOC’s Balloon Gas team has the answer to all your balloon needs. |
23 September 2006 |
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BOC Edwards, a leader in the supply of vacuum systems and services, has announced the launch of its new iGX platform, responding to an industry need for a versatile, low utility cost, high-reliability, high-performance drypump for semiconductor processes. |
23 September 2006 |
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The UK's biggest provider of helium is joining forces with a major user and Cambridge academics to sponsor a three year research project, the results of which are expected to reveal how much longer industry can rely on this increasingly scare resource. |
23 September 2006 |
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The UK's first ever zero emission bus will give Surrey residents an alternative view of public transport at the Ambient Picnic 2005, Guildford's annual music art and environment festival. |
23 September 2006 |
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BOC Edwards, a leading supplier of materials, equipment and services to the flat panel display manufacturing industry, announced today the launch of the Generation-F 1600, a new addition to its family of on-site fluorine generators. The Generation-F 1600 will be introduced at FPD TAIWAN 2005. |
22 September 2006 |
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BOC Edwards, in conjunction with its Taiwan joint venture partner, BOC Lien Hwa, has begun work on the next phase of expansion of its nitrogen production and pipeline distribution network, at a cost of more than US $30 million, in the Hsinchu Science Park in northern Taiwan. |
22 September 2006 |
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King & Prince Seafood Company has replaced two freezers with a single, BOC cryogenic impingement freezer at its Brunswick, Georgia processing plant, enabling it to increase production while lowering costs and reducing yield loss. |
22 September 2006 |
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BOC Medical will use three major medical conferences to promote its range of services and reinforce its position as a health care partner to the UK health sector.
The benefits of heliox in treating patients with airway obstructions, such as acute asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, will be the key message at the Intensive Care Society’s spring conference in Torquay. |
22 September 2006 |
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Indura, one of Latin America’s leading suppliers of industrial gases, has constructed Chile’s first on-site oxygen plant dedicated to clean, environmentally sustainable copper production. The high-purity oxygen is a vital part of Alliance Copper Ltd.’s landmark copper bioleaching prototype production facility in Calama, Chile. |
22 September 2006 |
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BOC Edwards, a major supplier of materials, equipment and services to the semiconductor industry, has successfully completed a wastewater treatment evaluation program with STMicroelectronics, one of the world’s leading semiconductor manufacturers. |
22 September 2006 |
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BOC has received accreditation for the international standard ISO/IEC 17025 for EPA Protocol gases and NIST traceable gas mixtures at its Riverton, New Jersey facility. This is the second such accredited BOC facility in the U.S., accreditation of the company’s Royal Oak, Michigan facility was announced in May 2003. At least one additional BOC production facility is scheduled for ISO 17025 accreditation. |
22 September 2006 |
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BOC Sureflow’s new dispense gas cylinder filling operation in Salford has been officially opened by one of the most famous names in the UK brewing industry.
Edward Theakston, a member of the Theakston family* whose original brewery was founded in 1827, unveiled a plaque to commemorate the opening of the state-of-the-art Suremix filling operation which will produce carbon dioxide and nitrogen mixtures for beer, lager and stout dispense. |
22 September 2006 |
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BOC has developed a patent-pending on-site chlorine purification technology that reduces optical fiber manufacturing costs by converting cheaper industrial grade chlorine into high-purity, lower moisture chlorine gas suitable for making optical fibers. |
21 September 2006 |
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BOC, the number one industrial gases company in Asia, has further expanded its leadership position in China by signing a major contract for the supply of oxygen to the Taiyuan Iron and Steel Corporation, located in the Shanxi province of north-central China. |
21 September 2006 |
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BOC technology aimed at making food safer for consumers by controlling Listeria (L. monocytogenes) has been validated by Kansas State University and accepted by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety Inspection Service. |
21 September 2006 |
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The licensed trade can now offer customers a wider range of beers without a cellar full of different mixed gases cylinders thanks to BOC Sureflow’s SureBlend range.
The public’s demand for an increasing number of beers had meant the need to stock several different mixtures, which means more cylinders in the cellar and more frequent cylinder changes. |
21 September 2006 |
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For many car drivers, the need to ensure the air conditioning system is ready for the summer comes well down the list of maintenance checks behind the oil, filters, tyres and brakes, but now is the right time to test for leaks, says BOC. |
21 September 2006 |
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BOC, a major supplier to the global steel industry, and MORE S.r.l., a worldwide leader in supplying chemical energy and injection systems to electric arc furnace steelmaking, announce the next step in their five-year partnership, the MORE Hi_JET. |
21 September 2006 |
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A wholly British partnership today unveiled plans to develop the world’s first environmentally clean sports car, powered by a fuel cell which converts hydrogen into electricity. |
21 September 2006 |
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This summer, when the demand for electricity to run pool pumps, fans and air conditioners is at its peak, power customers in Albany, N.Y., will get some extra capacity thanks to new technology. A system that eliminates the resistance that causes power losses in traditional copper cables has begun operating, providing enough power for more than 70,000 area households. |
20 September 2006 |
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The bocsafety.net site provides solutions to health and safety related challenges across a range of UK sectors including the automotive and marine industries, heavy industry, light engineering, general welding and metal cutting, and research and development. Says Martin Passingham, BOC Industrial market manager, “The bocsafety.net site aims to be a trusted source of advice and information, helping industrial operators work to legal compliance and to ensure a safer working environment”. |
20 September 2006 |
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Industrial and special gases company BOC is set to help cut the rate of ozone depleting emissions across the building sector with the introduction of EcomateR an environmentally friendly foam blowing agent. |
20 September 2006 |
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BOC, the world's largest helium supplier, and Macy's are again teaming up to celebrate Thanksgiving and to make children of all ages smile at the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade(R). |
20 September 2006 |
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BOC the industrial and special gases company is changing the identification colours of its gas cylinders as part of a European move to make gases and their associated hazards easy to identify. |
20 September 2006 |
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BOC Industrial is issuing its popular welding and cutting manual, BOC Tradefile, in a new hardbound catalogue and for the first time in the UK is to make it available to retail teams and over the counter at selected BOC Industrial trade outlets. |
20 September 2006 |
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The BOC Foundation has awarded OSCar Automotive a grant to develop a powertrain for a two-seat urban vehicle powered by a hydrogen fuel cell. The grant will help fund the two year Hyrban project which aims to prove that practical hydrogen fuel cell urban vehicles are readily engineered using existing fuel cell technology. |
20 September 2006 |
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An automated system, powered by solar energy and hydrogen fuel cells is bringing a much needed solution to the Environment Agency's water management on the river Deben in Suffolk. |
19 September 2006 |
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Sonic shockwaves that boost food hygiene by dramatically reducing cooking and cleaning time are at the core of a revolutionary process, PDX Sonic25, winner of the BOC sponsored technological development of the year at the Food Processing magazine awards held at the Copthorne Effingham Park Hotel, Gatwick. |
19 September 2006 |
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Food processors looking for ways to address plant production issues like fluctuating yield, poor efficiency and product inconsistency can get help from Think Gates(R), a BOC process optimization and service technology business. |
19 September 2006 |
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Toledo, Ohio, mother who hoped for a safer neighborhood for her two children is going to get her wish, thanks to Habitat for Humanity and BOC. Crystal Casida will move with her son, Nicholas, 8 and daughter, Jayceona, 5, to a house in Holland, Ohio. BOC, one of the world’s largest industrial gases suppliers, sponsored the house through the Maumee Valley Habitat for Humanity. Construction begins this month; the house should be finished in 2006. |
19 September 2006 |
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The latest addition to a new generation of medical gas cylinders is helping hospitals and emergency services deliver life-saving oxygen more efficiently, easily and safely. |
19 September 2006 |
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Global materials, equipment, and services provider, BOC Edwards, announced today it has been selected to supply a majority of the vacuum pump systems for LG.Philips LCD Plant 7, currently under construction in Paju, Korea. LG.Philips LCD, Seoul, is a leading manufacturer of TFT-LCD (thin film transistor-liquid crystal display) panels. The order includes iHxK and diFxK vacuum systems specifically designed by BOC Edwards to support LCD process applications. |
19 September 2006 |
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BOC Edwards, a leading supplier of vacuum and abatement equipment to the world’s 300 mm semiconductor fabs, announced today the release of its new electroplated metals abatement system product, which offers simplified liquid waste treatment and lower cost of ownership than conventional approaches. |
19 September 2006 |
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BOC, one of the world's largest industrial gases companies, is expanding its carbon dioxide capacity with a new plant in Volney, New York. The plant will be the first CO2 plant built in the Northeast in nearly two decades and will be the only CO2 plant in the region. |
18 September 2006 |
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BOC's advanced melting technology, CGM(TM), which has been confirmed in independent tests to boost production and quality in glass furnaces, will be the topic of a presentation at a global glass industry conference. |
18 September 2006 |
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Singapore Oxygen Air Liquide Pte Ltd, a joint venture between The BOC Group and Air Liquide, has signed a bulk gas contract with Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing, one of the world's top semiconductor foundries, for the supply of nitrogen to Chartered's 300 mm facility, Fab 7. |
18 September 2006 |
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Eco-Snow Systems, a member of The BOC Group, and the leading supplier of dry carbon dioxide snow-based wafer cleaning tools, has introduced a new process for semiconductor wafer cleaning that eliminates the negative side effects of traditional plasma cleaning. |
18 September 2006 |
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BOC's dolphin-shaped eco-marathon vehicle, the BOC Ech2o is ready to attempt the world fuel efficiency record. The BOC Ech2o has been designed with a simple goal to demonstrate fuel efficiency. |
18 September 2006 |
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Exploiting the trend for outdoor dining on cooler evenings could increase pub and restaurant sales by as much as 25 per cent says BOC Sureflow, the specialist gas supplier to the pub and licensed trade as it launches an extended range of patio heaters and barbecues. |
18 September 2006 |
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Intervent(tm), a food safety business of BOC, has signed an exclusive marketing agreement with Wolf-tec, Inc. of Kingston, N.Y. Under the agreement, Wolf-tec will market the Intervent(tm) UltraV Fluid Sterilizer to animal protein processors across North America for use with injection systems that tenderize and inject marinades into meats during processing. |
18 September 2006 |
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BOC’s new helium conservation system can help single-mode fiber producers improve operational efficiency by reducing the amount of helium used in the fiber draw process, without affecting fiber quality or throughput. The system is an alternative for fiber manufacturers who do not use enough helium to warrant a full helium recovery and recycle system. |
17 September 2006 |
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Anchor Glass Company has licensed the BOC CGM(TM) technology for glass processing in Anchor's Warner Robins, Georgia, glass container manufacturing plant. |
17 September 2006 |
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BOC, a leading supplier of hydrogen and other gases to the global refining industry, has signed a letter of intent to supply hydrogen to The Premcor Refining Group Inc., (NYSE: PCO)'s oil refinery in Lima, Ohio. |
17 September 2006 |
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A BOC truck driver who has driven safely for nearly 50 years, accumulating over five million miles, has become the seventh BOC driver inducted into the National Private Truck Council's Driver Hall of Fame. |
17 September 2006 |
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A new Anglo/French project to study ozone pollution in the Channel region has begun, thanks to grants from The BOC Foundation, the European Regional Development Fund and the Environment Agency. |
17 September 2006 |
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BOC Edwards announced today that it has entered into an agreement with AIXTRON AG, a leading manufacturer of metal-organic chemical vapor deposition process tools, to supply its Zenith III-V integrated pump and abatement system to compound semiconductor customers for arsenide and phosphide MOCVD applications. |
16 September 2006 |
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The Stolt Sea Farm group, a global USD1+ billion aquaculture company, has installed ozone-based pathogen control technology from Intervent(TM), the food safety technology and consulting arm of BOC at two of its North American processing facilities. |
16 September 2006 |
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BOC a leading supplier of gases and technology solutions to the global oil and gas industries, is increasing the amount of liquid carbon dioxide available to natural gas producers by adding a new plant in west Texas. |
16 September 2006 |
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Intervent(TM) ultraviolet light technology that makes food safer for consumers by inactivating Listeria on food contact surfaces has been acknowledged as a control treatment of Listeria monocytogenes by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety Inspection Service. The technology’s effectiveness has been validated by independent research conducted by Iowa State University. Intervent is a food safety business of BOC. |
16 September 2006 |
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Patio heaters from BOC Sureflow and Calor could be good news for both smokers and non-smokers following the government's announcement of a smoking ban.
BOC is supplying a limited range of commercial patio heaters and barbecues to help the licensed trade cope better with the changeable British weather and the possible effects of the forthcoming smoking ban. |
15 September 2006 |
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A partnership between BOC and a Canadian company will see groundbreaking medical technology used to cure cardiovascular disease being made available throughout Europe. |
15 September 2006 |
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Poultry processors who need world class technologies for pathogen control and destruction, freezing and chilling, process monitoring and water management services for their ready-to-eat food processing operations can look to BOC for assistance. |
15 September 2006 |
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Families all over the world are eating fresher and tastier chicken, turkey and duck thanks to BOC’s work with some of the world’s largest poultry processors. |
15 September 2006 |
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Industrial and special gases company BOC has launched a new service to help electricity companies meet stringent European rules on recovering sulphur hexafluoride, a fluorine compound widely used in electrical substations and transformers. |
14 September 2006 |
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Two new packages combining key welding, metal cutting, shielding, inerting and other industrial gases products and services have been launched by market expert BOC Industrial to give comprehensive support to UK industry. |
14 September 2006 |
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BOC Sureflow, the UK and Ireland’s leading supplier of carbon dioxide and carbon dioxide/nitrogen mixtures for the hospitality sector is to get a new look, will trade as part of BOC's new global hospitality brand, BOC Sureserve. |
14 September 2006 |
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Over 8000 visitors to Northern Restaurant and Bar will get the chance to taste the 'perfect' pint and at the same time see how it was 'engineered' - courtesy of a BOC Sureserve* working cellar which will be on view and powering the main bar at GMEX. |
14 September 2006 |
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Industrial gases company supports Severn Trent Waters continued drive for quality drinking water. A major contract for the supply of CO2 will see the industrial and special gases company BOC help Severn Trent Water sustain the supply of good quality drinking water to the city of Birmingham. |
13 September 2006 |
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BOC and Shanghai Petrochemical Co. Ltd. (SPC), a subsidiary of Sinopec Group, have signed an agreement to form a 50/50 industrial gases joint venture (JV) and entered into a contract to supply industrial gases to SPC (HKSE:0338 and SHSE:600688) and nearby users in Shanghai, China. |
13 September 2006 |
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BOC, the world's largest helium supplier, is strengthening its U.S. helium supply capability with a new distribution center opening in Montgomery, Illinois. From this location, BOC will ship gaseous and liquid helium to customers throughout the central Midwest. |
13 September 2006 |
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Leading hospitality specialist, BOC Sureserve will single-handedly power two bars at the Pub and Bar exhibition while offering 7000 show visitors an exclusive view of their state-of-the-art cellar in operation. |
13 September 2006 |
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Pumped for the big match and guaranteed to stay firm under pressure BOC Sureserve's floating footballer, created specially for the launch of the hospitality specialist’s World Cup 2006 balloon packs, could prove a winner for licensees when time is called on the greatest festival of football in the world. |
12 September 2006 |
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A small respiratory device invented by BOC Medical is set to save thousands of oxygen-dependent patients across England and Wales from the threat of house fire.
Each year there are instances of patients accidentally igniting their homecare oxygen systems by, for example, smoking while using oxygen masks and cannulas or catching their plastic tubing on household cookers or other appliances. |
12 September 2006 |
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Poultry processors looking for ways to improve yield and consistency and to better manage their entire production process can get help from ThinkGates, a BOC process optimization and service technology business. |
12 September 2006 |
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The crème of the UK's aspiring motor technicians will have state-of-the-art welding gas and equipment to train with thanks to a two year agreement between BOC Industrial and Thatcham, the UK's authority on all things motor repair. |
12 September 2006 |
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BOC Industrial will unveil an expanded package of products and services for the laser industry when it launches a new look for its dedicated cryogenic service, BOC Cryospeed at the MACH2006 exhibition in Birmingham. |
11 September 2006 |
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The BOC Group plc and Tongji University have signed a Letter of Intent to build the first hydrogen refuelling station in Shanghai. This project is part of the Ministry of Science and Technology’s national programme to commercialise fuel cell vehicles in China. The station is due to be completed by the end of 2006 and will refuel three buses and 20 cars. |
11 September 2006 |
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BOC, one of the world's largest industrial gases companies and a leader in developing advanced solutions for the world's glass manufacturers, is helping Saint-Gobain Glass boost productivity at one of its European furnaces. |
11 September 2006 |
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Xstrata Alloys, a major ferrochrome alloy producer, has awarded a multimillion dollar contract to African Oxygen Limited, a subsidiary of BOC, one of the world's largest industrial gases companies for the supply of gaseous oxygen. The oxygen will help Xstrata increase production efficiencies at its ferrochrome plant at Lydenburg, Mpumalanga Province, South Africa, in order to meet its long-term growth projections. |
11 September 2006 |
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Georgia Tech Research Institute has agreed to allow Thinkage to commercialize the university’s novel machine-vision poultry screening system. The agreement will allow Thinkage to incorporate the machine-vision system into its proprietary Think Gates service and technology offering from BOC. |
02 January 2006 |
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Mexico's ambitious and highly successful oil field pressurisation project will soon grow considerably larger thanks to additional supply from the world’s largest nitrogen production facility. |
20 December 2004 |
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BOC has announced the renewal of its multi-million pound contract to supply Corus' Trostre plant, near Llanelli in South Wales. |
21 November 2004 |
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Building on established relationships in the Asian electronic manufacturing arena, BOC Edwards announced today it is expanding its leadership position in Taiwan by investing in seven gas plant facilities to ensure bulk gas supply to nine new semiconductor and flat panel display manufacturing fabs currently under construction. |
09 November 2004 |
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A scientist from BOC will describe ways to reduce raw materials costs in the manufacture of low-water-peak fiber at the upcoming 53rd International Wire and Cable Symposium/Focus event in Philadelphia next month. |
25 October 2004 |
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BOC, a leading supplier of hydrogen and other gases to the global refining industry, will build a world scale hydrogen and utilities complex to supply BP and Sunoco oil refineries in Toledo, Ohio. |
13 October 2004 |
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BOC has unveiled a new business brand to meet the needs of the global scientific community in a market worth more than £700 million. BOC Scientific brings together an existing product range of certified calibration gas mixtures, instrumentation gases and gas control equipment for analytical applications. |
11 December 2003 |
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Thinkage and the Georgia Tech Research Institute are working together to develop a non-contact, core temperature sensor for use in preparing and processing ready-to-eat food products. |
09 December 2003 |
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BOC’s one-stop online service that contains all the support and information needed by all UK industrial gas users was unveiled at this month’s Weldex 2003. The UK’s largest international exhibition for welding, joining, cutting and fabrication technologies was the showcase for the launch of www.bocindustrial.co.uk, which gives access to the four service offerings included under the BOC Industrial brand, Response, Tradequip, Leengate Welding Group and local agents. |
26 November 2003 |
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BOC will double the production capacity of its helium transfill facility in Bessemer, Alabama, a Birmingham suburb. A new compressor will be added that will double the production capacity from 12,000 standard cubic feet per hour (scfh) to 24,000 scfh effective early next year. |
29 October 2003 |
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BOC has granted Belco Technologies Corporation an exclusive license to use its patented, award winning LoTOx nitrogen oxide control technology to help reduce smog-forming emissions at petroleum refineries. |
15 October 2003 |
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Fresh Mark of Ohio has selected BOC's ozone technology as a centerpiece for the pathogen reduction program at its Canton, Ohio meat processing plant. To reduce bacteria and control listeria and other pathogens, Fresh Mark, a family-owned business known for its Superiors Brand and Sugardale wieners, hams, bacon, smoked sausage and deli meats, installed two BOC ozone systems. |
01 October 2003 |
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British explorer, David Hempleman-Adams today became the first person to cross the Atlantic in a balloon equipped with a wicker basket, with BOC supplying the helium for the balloon. |
29 September 2003 |
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Industry demand has led BOC to roll-out a second wave of customer safety workshops to raise awareness in the refrigeration industry of the hazards of working with industrial gases and refrigerants . |
24 September 2003 |
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A leading Dorset-based brewery has signed up for BOC Sureflow’s safety service package to help its tenants carry out a confined space risk assessment in their cellars. |
15 September 2003 |
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BOC is doubling its carbon dioxide capacity in Thailand with a second plant in Rayong. The plant, which will go online in the fourth quarter of 2003, will be able to produce 300 tonnes a day of CO2, most of which will be used to support Thailand’s poultry and prawn processing industries. |
20 August 2003 |
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BOC will open a new welding supply and gases retail store and distribution facility in Baltimore, Maryland on August 25, 2003. According to Charles Quillen, regional stores manager, BOC, the new facility, which is located at 6963 Golden Ring Road, is both convenient and customer-friendly. |
19 August 2003 |
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The first–ever delivery of bulk liquid oxygen to the Isle of Man has been made to the island’s newly-built hospital by BOC. The delivery was made to two liquid medical oxygen vessels recently installed by BOC at the 252-bed Noble’s Hospital in the capital, Douglas. |
30 June 2003 |
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BOC and Hudson Technologies, a leading player in the US refrigerants market, have today announced the signing of a global alliance to promote a technology that ‘cleans’ refrigerants. The technology will improve plant efficiency leading to greater energy savings for customers and environmental benefits from reduced carbon dioxide emissions. |
26 June 2003 |
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As part of its developing hydrogen energy programme, BOC has started two hydrogen fuel cell trials at internal sites in the UK. |
24 June 2003 |
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BOC is to sponsor a world record attempt later this year to travel a distance equal to London to Vancouver on the equivalent of one gallon of petrol by using a hydrogen fuel cell powered vehicle. |
23 June 2003 |
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BOC has enhanced its capabilities and instituted new ordering and fulfillment procedures at its Reading, Pennsylvania distribution center. The center serves welding equipment customers and company-owned retail outlets within a 75-mile radius of Reading. |
18 June 2003 |
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BOC has today announced the launch of a new Heliox cylinder in the UK to aid the treatment of patients with airway obstructions, such as acute asthma. |
12 June 2003 |
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BOC Medical has announced plans to build a major gas production facility near Manchester, which will give hospitals around the country greater access to high quality medical gases. |
19 May 2003 |
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BOC has received accreditation for the international standard ISO 17025 for environmental and NIST traceable gas mixtures at its Royal Oak, Michigan facility.
The accreditation from The American Association for Laboratory Accreditation is the first for any special gases company in the U.S. It formally recognizes BOC’s quality system for testing activities, as well as its technical competence in the determination of valid analytical test results. |
05 May 2003 |
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BOC is at the forefront of the UK double glazing industry’s drive to combat global warming through the use of gases. The move is in response to new UK building regulations for the double glazing of windows, which aims to cut carbon dioxide emissions, half of which come from heating and lighting buildings. |
07 April 2003 |
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Officials from Seymour and EMC will break ground on Monday, April 7, at 10:30 a.m., on $17 million worth of improvements to the Seymour wastewater treatment plant at 5716 East County Road 525 North. |
07 April 2003 |
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How good does your tap water taste?
Residents of Havana, Ill., are hoping their water, which just won in a state-wide taste-test, will be able to hold its own in a national competition on April 8. |
25 March 2003 |
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Leaks in the air conditioning system of cars in the UK, previously undetectable by the human eye, are now a thing of the past thanks to BOC. BOC, together with US company Honeywell, have launched a new refrigerant gas in the UK, Honeywell R-134aUV. The gas, which includes an ultraviolet dye so that mechanics can pinpoint leaks faster and easier, will help reduce refrigerant leakage into the atmosphere. Under the 1990 Environmental Protection Act the deliberate release of refrigerant gases into the atmosphere is illegal. |
24 March 2003 |
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BOC has contracted with Tata Steel of Jamshedpur, India, to supply oxygen for use in the company’s blast furnace. The multi-million-dollar contract is for a new oxygen plant that can produce up to some 220 metric tons a day of oxygen. BOC’s Indian subsidiary, BOC India Ltd., will install and commission the unit later this year. |
12 March 2003 |
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BOC is working with Neptune Seafood to expand the ozone pathogen intervention system used to help control food-borne pathogens and extend product shelf life at Neptune’s Los Angeles shrimp processing plant. |
10 March 2003 |
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BOC Gases is helping compressed gases and equipment customers monitor and track cylinder inventory in 'real-time' through a new wireless hand held technology. |
03 March 2003 |
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Thinkage, a BOC food ventures company, has introduced its new Think Gates Quality Assurance Reporting System, which replaces paper-driven reporting in food plants with computerized technology. |
25 February 2003 |
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BOC and Atlantic Health System, one of the top 100 integrated health care systems in the U.S., have agreed to cooperate in the development of new technology to continuously improve the dependability and safety of hospital liquid oxygen storage and delivery systems. |
10 February 2003 |
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BOC is set to launch a series of nationwide customer safety workshops aimed at raising awareness of the hazards of working with industrial gases and refrigerants within the refrigeration industry. |
27 January 2003 |
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The world's ship building industry is set for a major boost following successful trials of a revolutionary new laser cutting technology at a US shipyard, BOC announced today. |
21 January 2003 |
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Bar-S Foods Co., a nationally-branded hot dog and lunch meat processor, has installed BOC’s ozonated wash system and ultra-violet light pathogen intervention technologies in its three food processing plants to help fight the battle against the food-borne pathogens such as listeria monocytogenes (listeria). |
21 January 2003 |
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The St. Louis-based water services company, owned by BOC of Murray Hill, N.J., has helped municipalities win several awards from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and from state and national associations for excellent operations at 10 of the facilities it manages. |
06 January 2003 |
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BOC Gases today announced the launching of the Gas Source distributor program to supply and service a wider range of Canadian customers who use BOC Gases’ gas products, related equipment and supplies. The Gas Source program not only targets BOC Gases’ existing network of partners, but also industrial gas and equipment distributors that would like to complement their existing product lines and business focus. |
17 December 2002 |
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BOC is inviting U.S. Gulf Coast companies to two one-day seminars in December to learn how to keep better track of operations, reduce the total cost of ownership for the gases supply chain, and ensure accurate supply through state-of-the art technology customized to meet specific needs. |
04 December 2002 |
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Properly aligning fiber optics production requirements with gas and chemical supply systems can significantly cut costs for hard-pressed manufacturers, a BOC fiber optics expert told attendees at an industry conference. |
20 November 2002 |
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Executives from Thinkage Systems and Odom’s Tennessee Pride told attendees of the 2002 American Meat Industry annual convention how to achieve total product control in a real-world food processing setting. |
13 November 2002 |
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BOC Gazy has been awarded a contract for the supply of industrial gases and combustion equipment to Baterpol’s lead smelting and refining facility in Katowice, Poland. |
05 September 2002 |
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Progressive Industries, Inc., a Chicago-based minority business partner of BOC, won the compressed gases supply contract with the University of Illinois at Chicago. In support of PII, BOC will supply UIC with compressed medical, industrial and specialty cylinder gases as well as liquid helium, nitrogen and carbon dioxide for use in the university’s various educational departments, research laboratories and university hospital. |
27 August 2002 |
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Optical fiber manufacturers concerned with achieving top quality while holding supply costs in check will want to hear what a trio of BOC experts have to say about the importance of raw material purity and supply. |
26 August 2002 |
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BOC is working with Johnson Matthey Chemicals to improve the operational efficiency and environmental performance of their new rotary furnaces at its precious metal refinery with the installation of three BOC low emission swirl oxy-fuel burner systems. |
12 August 2002 |
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BOC has lent its expertise to Channel 5’s evening show, Combat Cars, that crashes onto our screens this month. |
12 August 2002 |
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BOC is to work with BP to supply hydrogen for a fleet of fuel cell buses which will begin operational field trials serving fare-paying passengers around London in the UK from late 2003 and Perth in Australia from 2004. |
05 August 2002 |
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BOC is inviting companies on the West Coast to two daylong seminars in August to learn how to reduce purchasing and ownership costs, keep better track of operations and ensure consistent supply through state-of-the art technology customized to meet specific needs. |
31 July 2002 |
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BOC has announced it has completed the purchase of the industrial assets of Enron Teesside Operations Limited. The purchase was completed on July 12 following approval of the acquisition by The Secretary of State for Trade and Industry. |
23 July 2002 |
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Since incorporating the BOC Burnjector technology into its operations in August, 2001, CitiSteel, a carbon plate steel mill based in Claymont, Del., has improved the energy efficiency and productivity of its manufacturing processes. |
08 July 2002 |
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Companies that want to evaluate the effectiveness of the BOC LoTOx nitrogen oxide control technology on emissions can test the LoTOx system at their plant using a mobile, trailer-mounted pilot unit. The unit enables BOC to optimize the design of the LoTOx NOx control system prior to permanent installation. |
24 June 2002 |
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Food processors using Thinkage LLC’s Think Gates service to control the state of their product now have another tool to increase yield and improve product consistency. Thinkage has added a computerized customer operations and management service center to support customer access to key plant information. |
20 June 2002 |
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BOC Sureflow, the UK’s leading supplier of dispense gas to the hospitality industry, today announced the launch of a new gas mixing panel specifically designed to allow smaller outlets to offer customers a wider range of beers. |
19 June 2002 |
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Bakers looking to improve product consistency by maintaining uniform and accurate ingredient temperatures have been turning to BOC's flour chilling system in ever-increasing numbers. 'Bakers love the fact that the technology produces consistent flour temperatures (+/- 1/2° F) even in extreme heat,' says BOC's Amy Ficon, marketing manager, bakery segment, food market sector. |
18 June 2002 |
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BOC has launched Arrowhead2, a new web services-enabled capability that provides customers with a tool to manage their industrial gases products from order to payment to replenishment. |
17 June 2002 |
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BOC and AirPol, a subsidiary of MPM Technologies, have finalized a licensing agreement for BOC's innovative, LoTOxTM nitrogen oxide, or NOx, control technology. BOC and AirPol will jointly market the technology to both the pulp and paper and waste incineration industries. |
03 June 2002 |
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BOC has announced the first Australian placement of its patented Burnjector technology, an advanced chemical energy injection system for the electric arc furnace, at OneSteel’s steel scrap recycling plant at Rooty Hill, Sydney. |
21 May 2002 |
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A hamburger manufacturer in St. Louis is increasing yield, reducing nitrogen consumption and saving money after adding a BOC cryogenic impingement freezer to one of its processing lines. |
16 May 2002 |
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BOC has been awarded a major contract, worth nearly £18m, by the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority to supply industrial and special gases to all its UK facilities. |
09 May 2002 |
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Nitrous oxide (N2O) still has a vital role to play in modern anaesthesia, that’s the message BOC will outline at two major UK medical conferences later this year. |
01 May 2002 |
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RSR Corporation's Quemetco Inc. has selected the BOC LoTOx nitrogen oxide control system to meet emissions requirements at its reverberatory furnace in City of Industry, California. |
29 April 2002 |
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The benefits to ambulance crews, community midwives and nurses in the UK of BOC Medical’s entonox version of its innovative lightweight oxygen CD cylinder were outlined at the Pain Society’s annual conference in Bournemouth earlier this month (April). |
22 April 2002 |
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Gist, one of the UK’s largest specialist logistics operators, has been awarded a multi-million pound contract to manage a new supply chain operation for the John Lewis Partnership, the UK's leading high street department store chain and owner of Waitrose supermarkets. |
09 April 2002 |
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Thinkage LLC has introduced a revolutionary, risk free service agreement that allows poultry processors to gain total control over the state of their product throughout the entire production process. |
08 April 2002 |
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BOC is inviting companies in the Northeast to a daylong seminar on April 11 to learn how to reduce purchasing and ownership costs, keep better track of operations and ensure consistent supply through state-of-the art technology customized to meet specific needs. |
19 March 2002 |
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BOC Gases is helping customers save hundreds of thousands of dollars annually by reducing their total cost of ownership for gases. |
18 March 2002 |
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BOC has agreed to license its LoTOx nitrogen oxide control system to Belco Technologies Corp. under a joint marketing agreement designed to reduce smog-forming emissions from the main gasoline production units at oil refineries. |
14 March 2002 |
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BOC Edwards’ compound semiconductor group and BOC’s fiber optics solutions unit are coordinating their business activities to present the optical communication industry with a single entity capable of providing products and services that span the entire spectrum of their manufacturing needs. |
11 March 2002 |
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The alliance between BOC and air conditioning and refrigeration specialist HRP, which became official on February 11, means natural hydrocarbon refrigerants will now be available on a wider scale than ever before in the UK. |
08 March 2002 |
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Carolina Turkeys became the first turkey processor to take advantage of the financial and resource savings made possible by BOC’s innovative Macron Loop Process Water Resource System. The patented, ozone-based system, which has been used primarily in U.S. broiler plants since its introduction in 1999, can reduce turkey processor water consumption by millions of gallons per month, saving customers tens of thousands of dollars annually. |
05 March 2002 |
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Mechatherm International Ltd. and BOC are offering secondary aluminum and dross processors a combined furnace and combustion package to enhance the energy efficiency, productivity and environmental performance of their melting operations. |
14 February 2002 |
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The largest hydrogen production plant in England, built by Foster Wheeler and owned and operated by BOC, has come on stream at Huntsman’s manufacturing operations on Teesside. |
04 February 2002 |
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The science skills of students in the New Providence school district are getting a boost from a series of award-winning, educational videos sponsored by The BOC Group. |
24 January 2002 |
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The oxygen and nitrogen have begun flowing at BOC’s new industrial gases production plant at OneSteel’s Whyalla Steelworks in South Australia. The facility, constructed at a cost of $31 million (USD), includes a 715 tons-per-day (tpd) air separation unit (ASU), a 275tpd nitrogen liquefier, a 20tpd argon purifier, and 2300 tons of liquid storage. |
22 January 2002 |
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Thinkage LLC is taking aim at the traditional food processing industry problems of fluctuating yield, equipment downtime and product inconsistency by giving processors total control over the state of their product. |
16 January 2002 |
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BOC’s Combo Chiller system is enabling poultry processors to increase the accuracy and consistency of the quick-chilling in their combo bins. |
15 January 2002 |
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Poultry processors who need to reduce dehydration and product inconsistency while improving yield are using the BOC cryogenic impingement freezers to help them meet their target. |
15 January 2002 |
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BOC designed and supplied the environmental technology for China’s first mobile oxygenation barge. The self-sufficient barge represents the first step in a 12-year plan to rehabilitate Suzhou Creek, a highly-polluted stream that flows through Shanghai, China’s largest city. The Suzhou Creek project is China’s most ambitious water reclamation project to date. |
15 January 2002 |
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A team of BOC metals specialists have developed an approach for improving the quality of annealed steel by reducing carbon deposition on the surface of the cold rolled steel strip. Surface quality is extremely important because annealed steel is usually painted or galvanized, and any surface imperfection, such as carbon deposits, iron fines, or oxides will affect the quality of the final product. |
14 January 2002 |
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BOC, the world's largest helium marketer, has patented a new helium recovery system that offers optical fiber manufacturers significantly reduced operating costs and increased security of supply. |
08 January 2002 |
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Georgia Tech Research Institute has agreed to allow Thinkage to commercialize the university’s novel machine-vision poultry screening system. The agreement will allow Thinkage to incorporate the machine-vision system into its proprietary Think Gates service and technology offering from BOC. |
02 January 2002 |
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In one of the first-ever multi-pollutant systems put on-line, BOC’s award-winning LoTOxTM technology has helped to significantly cut smog-forming pollutants from three power boilers at the Medical College of Ohio in a project funded by the Ohio Coal Development Office. |
11 December 2001 |
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BOC unveiled its patented BOC Convective Glass Melting system at the recent Conference on Glass Problems, in Urbana, Illinois. CGM is a radical new approach to glass melting that significantly increases furnace capacity and improves glass quality. It can also be used to extend the life and improve the performance of ailing furnaces. |
04 December 2001 |
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The process, which was designed and installed by the company for use at Rhodia ChiRex’s general purpose plant at its Holmes Chapel site, will assist in the control of reaction temperatures during chemical manufacture, which is a critical parameter in many ‘current good manufacturing practice’ pharmaceutical production processes. |
04 December 2001 |
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BOC has recently launched a Cyclo-plus and Iso-plus* range of customised pentane-based blends to meet the growing need for polyurethane foam blowing in the marketplace. |
28 November 2001 |
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A new range of laboratory vacuum pumps from BOC Edwards offers lubricant-free vacuum pumping down to 0.07mbar. The innovative XDS range features a scroll mechanism with a unique bearing shield which ensures that there are no bearings, grease, or oil under vacuum and no bearing purge is required, providing a cleaner, more repeatable process. |
15 October 2001 |
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Leading vacuum pump manufacturer BOC Edwards announces the launch of a dry-vacuum pumping system for use in vacuum induction melting. The new package helps manufacturers optimise furnace running times by considerably reducing the need for maintenance and consumables. |
09 October 2001 |
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BOC and Swedish-based Chematur Engineering AB have signed a five year sales and marketing agreement to promote the use of Super Critical Water Oxidation for environmental applications. |
05 October 2001 |
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BOC Edwards today announced the global release and availability of its new intelligent Gas Source Controller, an automatic controller designed specifically for delivering special gases into ultra high purity applications, like the semiconductor manufacturing process. It is available for use on traditional gas cabinets for cylinder gases, valve manifold boxes and bulk special gas systems. |
02 October 2001 |
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BOC Edwards today announced that it has completed the design of a novel ultra-high purity ammonia gas production system utilizing a low grade liquid ammonia feedstock. The system is capable of annually producing up to150 tons of Grade 6.0+ liquid ammonia with a moisture content of less than 0.3ppm. High purity ammonia gas has applications in the semiconductor, LED, and flat panel display markets where low levels of metallic impurities and moisture are required for processing. |
28 September 2001 |
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A BOC employee has been recognised for his work in advancing heat treatment technology by receiving a prestigious American industry award. |
26 September 2001 |
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BOC Edwards, the world leading supplier of gas, chemical, vacuum and exhaust management solutions has launched a new e-commerce service for on-line purchasing of vacuum pumps, components and accessories. |
24 September 2001 |
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BOC has developed a cryogenic impingement freezer that delivers the baking industry's highest freezing efficiency, along with significant improvements in the dehydration rate. The new cryogenic freezer was introduced to the industry this week at the International Baking Industry Exposition in Las Vegas, Nevada. |
13 September 2001 |
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BOC has announced the first North American placement of its Burnjector technology, an advanced, chemical energy injection system for the Electric Arc Furnace, at a Delaware carbon plate steel mill. |
16 August 2001 |
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Goodrich Corporation’s Aerostructures Group has signed a long term lease agreement for a BOC pressure swing absorption generator at its Riverside, California production facility. The PSA generator makes nitrogen that is used to inert and pressurize the autoclaves Goodrich uses in the production of non-metallic, composite parts for use in the airline and aerospace industries. |
29 July 2001 |
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BOC Edwards, a major supplier of exhaust management systems, announced today that they have entered into a joint development program and exclusive licensing agreement with Accentus plc, a wholly-owned subsidiary of AEA Technology plc. The two companies have agreed to develop and market a plasma abatement system that will destroy a wide selection of PFC gases used in the semiconductor industry. |
16 July 2001 |
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A new water vapor pump which can handle situations beyond the scope of conventional turbomolecular and cryopumps has just been launched by BOC Edwards. |
16 July 2001 |
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The Entonox version of BOC Medical's innovative lightweight oxygen CD cylinder will be launched at the Ambex exhibition in Harrogate next week. |
22 June 2001 |
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BOC, a major supplier to the global steel industry, is offering metals producers another way to enhance the energy efficiency, productivity, environmental performance and safety of the steelmaking process. |
14 June 2001 |
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Leading dry vacuum technology Nitrogen re-circulation Low cost of ownership BOC Edwards launched Solstar, a highly cost-effective new filter/dryer pumping system for pharmaceutical and fine chemical filter dryer applications, at Eurochem. |
12 June 2001 |
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BOC Edwards has introduced FabSense Instrumentation Solutions, a range of cost effective, on-line instrumentation products designed for installation at key locations in a semiconductor fab to provide continuous, real-time monitoring capability. FabSense addresses the challenges of contamination control, overall equipment effectiveness and environmental safety and health. |
27 April 2001 |
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BOC Gases is inviting companies in the Chattanooga area to a daylong seminar on March 29 to learn how they can reduce purchasing and ownership costs, keep better track of their operations and ensure consistent supply through state-of-the art e-Business technology. |
19 March 2001 |
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Representatives from the poultry industry joined with technology providers and government, academic and consumer representatives in identifying new and emerging technologies as the cornerstone of food safety and consumer protection at the Sixth Annual Food Safety Panel sponsored by BOC and Ecolab at the International Poultry Exposition in Atlanta, Georgia on January 18, 2001. |
01 February 2001 |
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BOC's CATweb site has been launched at catweb.boc.com It was originally developed as an intranet site on controlled atmosphere technology to help BOC's global team in this sector provide a better service for its customers. |
16 January 2001 |
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The AIRCO Distributor Association extended Hypertherm's preferred supplier status for Plasma Equipment. The ADA represents more than 120 distributors nationwide, and the group facilitates more than $1 billion in sales of welding gases and hardgoods annually. |
15 January 2001 |
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BOC Gases has recently signed contracts with the Shotton Paper Company for the supply of a new 30 tonne per day oxygenation system for the treatment of waste water at the Shotton site in Deeside. The plant, designed by BOC, combines the benefits of high purity oxygen and air. At the heart of the system are a 24 tonne per day oxygen pressure swing adsorption plant and a new Vitox oxygenation and mixing system. |
06 January 2001 |
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BOC has opened the southern hemisphere's largest hydrogen plant at Bulwer Island, Brisbane, Australia, as part of an AUS$170 million (£64 million approx.) investment by the company in high technology plant for producing cleaner fuels. |
26 October 2000 |
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Huntsman Petrochemicals and BOC have entered into a long-term contract for the supply of hydrogen and steam to Huntsman's manufacturing operations on Teesside. |
13 September 2000 |
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