Argon
Argon is valued for its total inertness, in particular at high temperatures.
Argon is used in critical industrial processes such as the manufacturing of high quality stainless steels and production of impurity-free silicon crystals for semi-conductor manufacture. Argon is also used as an inert filler gas for light bulbs and as a dry, heavier-than-air-or-nitrogen filler for the space between glass panels in high-efficiency multi-pane windows.
Huge amounts of argon is consumed in the metals and fabrication industries.
SicgilSol can supply argon to our customers in all the following modes:
- Single Cylinders,
- Cylinder Bundles
- Tankers in Liquid form
Major Argon Applications
- Rubber and plastic
- Bulk pharmaceuticals
- Fine chemistry
- Polymers
- Cosmetics and herbalism
- Basic and organic chemistry, synthesised intermediates
- Pharmaceutical specialities
- Carpentry
- Aeronautical production
- Shipyards
- Major building sites
- Carbon steel working
- Tool working
- Automotive
- Aluminium working
- Solid waste treatment plant
- Multiutility
- Waste to energy plants
- Waste to Energy
- Plant for treating industrial (chemical, pharmaceutical, fabrics and leather, food, paper, petrochemicals and mining) waste
- Precision casting (e.g. lost wax, micro-fusion casting)
- Cast-iron production
- Nonferrous metal working
- Stainless steel working
- Glass container and fibre production
- Steelmaking (from scrap – arc furnace)
- Secondary aluminium production (recycling)
- Plate glass production
- Aluminium extrusion
- Milk and derivatives
- Bread and confectionery
- Meat and poultry
- Fish processing
- Coffee, wine and oil
- Fruit and vegetables
- Ready meals
- Catering
- Beverages
- Offshore
- Extraction
- Oil refining
- Raw material and finished product stockage
- Transport and pipelines
- Plant components and equipment
- Non-ferrous metal production (copper, lead, gold and bronze)
- Steelmaking (from pig iron – blast furnace)
- Artistic glass production
- Steel forging
- Refractory products production, marble
- Lime production
- Precious metal working
- Cement production