How Praxair Improves Safety and Reliability in Gas Production
In this testimonial video, learn how Praxair, a leading specialty gas manufacturer, strengthens production safety and operational reliability through its long-standing partnership with Swagelok. Operating complex systems that handle high-pressure, reactive, and specialty gases requires dependable fluid system components and expert support. Praxair relies on Swagelok products, custom-engineered solutions, and comprehensive fluid system training to help maintain safe, leak-tight operations. Hear how decades of collaboration, responsive service, and technical expertise have helped Praxair uphold its commitment to safety, quality, and performance while meeting the demands of industrial gas production and supporting long-term operational success.
Video Transcript
The market in Brazil has not been growing for four or five years. The competition is getting harder and harder, so there is a big pressure to be more efficient.
This is the specialty gas plant of White Martins. Inside this plant, we probably have around 200 people working on specialty and industrial gases.
The Praxair way of doing business focuses on safety, reliability, and innovation. We have 37 units working with high-pressure gases and high-pressure installations. Among these units, eight have acetylene plants. Two have natural gas compression, a specialty gases plant, and a nitrous oxide plant.
Since we work with gases under high pressure, as well as reactive and toxic gases, we cannot work with equipment that allows any failure or leakage.
When you arrive at an installation and see Swagelok fittings, that gives you reliability.
Swagelok is basically an industry standard. It is rated by most customers as the best solution we can provide, and they feel comfortable with that. At the same time, we feel comfortable with that because we have a long story of success dealing with Swagelok products.
We care about quality, safety, and the guarantee that we will not have any accidents later with our clients. I have been here for 21 years in this company, and we have never found any failure in Swagelok equipment.
Recently, we developed a project with Swagelok, designing and planning to effectively build a panel for gas mixture bottling. These mixtures include not only permanent gases but also reactive gases, which demand specific materials that do not suffer corrosion.
One of the strong points of our relationship with Swagelok is the quality of the training they provide for our salespeople and our operations people.
We have tube bending, tube fitting installation, valve selection, pressure regulator training, and training on how to choose a pressure regulator. You can have the best product in the market, but if the customer does not know how to use it, the value will be lost.
We had several situations where we were in a corner and needed product in what I would almost call impossible timelines, and they were always there to find solutions and get the products to us.
Praxair trusts Swagelok because of the safety of the materials, the quality, the assistance we receive, the immediate delivery of products, and the service they provide.
I trust Swagelok because it is a 25-year story. It is a story that we are writing, and I hope to write it for many years ahead.
