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The latest stories about BOC can be accessed here.- A secondary school’s plans to build a wildlife pond and wildflower garden have won it a £2,000 prize from industrial gases company BOC. The pond and garden will help pupils learn about local biodiversity and the environment. Read more about BOC rewards environmental effort
- BOC Healthcare has won a contract to provide compressed medical gases to the ambulance service across Scotland. BOC, a member of The Linde Group, is the largest supplier of industrial, medical and special gases in the UK and Ireland. Read more about BOC wins ambulance contract with latest technology
- BOC has sealed an agreement with the University of East Anglia (UEA) to supply a technologically complex and rare reference gas for a scientific expedition to Antarctica which will research the role of the Southern Ocean in the global climate system. Read more about BOC's support to Antarctic research
- The search is on for the best trainee and apprentice welders in the UK. BOC’s Apprentice Welder Competition 2009-10 has been launched in colleges across the country. Winners of the local college-based competitions will progress to regional heats. Finals will be held in Scotland, Wales and England in June and July 2010. Read more about the search for the UK's top welding talent
- BOC Healthcare’s Oxylator™ pneumatically-powered portable ventilators have been approved for use with NHS Ambulance Service Trusts. The products are included within the NWCCA Framework Agreement. Read more about BOC portable ventilators
- For frontline emergency medical services, BOC Healthcare's revolutionary new oxygen cylinder offers an ultra-lightweight and easy-to-use source of medical oxygen. Developed in cooperation with Ambulance Trusts, this 1-litre, 300-bar cylinder weighs in at just 1.55kg at full capacity - the lightest cylinder package available! Read more about BOC easing the load for emergency services
- BOC Healthcare has installed FireSafe oxygen arrestors throughout Portsmouth's Queen Alexandra Hospital, as part of an extensive fire prevention programme implemented by Portsmouth Hospitals NHS Trust. Read more about mailing Portsmouth's hospital Firesafe
- New product ranges - including Regatta and Goretex® wet weather clothing, Cirrus Sound Signs and Semmco Emergency Escape Hoods - are just some of the additions which feature in BOC's biggest-ever Safety Products Catalogue. Read more about be safe, be smart
- The skills and technologies to reinvigorate the UK economy and help its transformation to a low carbon future provided the focus for the visit by Pat McFadden MP, Minister for Business, Innovation and Skills, to BOC's Wolverhampton Technology Centre today (Friday 9 October). Read more about transforming UK industry
- With the 2010 uprating of the Building Regulations requiring significantly higher energy efficiency levels from glazing units, many businesses will be looking at gas-filling as a cost-effective way to improve performance. BOC is the UK’s largest supplier of industrial and special gases, with over 100 years experience in the provision and handling of these materials. Read more about the name for insulating gas
- Customers receiving the new BOC catalogues for 2009-10 over the coming weeks will notice a new, more targeted focus to them. With thousands of product lines across five main areas, and more items than ever in the latest series, BOC is taking a new approach to ensure that customers get the information they need in the most appropriate format. Read more about gearing up for 2010
- BOC, the UK’s largest provider of industrial gases, will be explaining to a new generation the science that lies behind the products it supplies to virtually every industry in the UK – from steelmaking, through medical and food applications to the party balloons available in every high street Read more about the properties of gases
- Alistair Brummitt from Bedlington in Northumberland is the best young welder in England! He won the title of BOC Apprentice Welder 2009 at the English finals held at Doosan Babcock’s welding school in Tipton, West Midlands over three days from 29-31 July. Read more about top welding talent
- Hydrogen from industrial gas producer BOC provided the power to light up the theatre tent at this year’s Latitude Festival in Suffolk. The 2009 event, held on the weekend of 17-19 July, featured the Pet Shop Boys among a glittering array of acts. Over 20,000 people attended this year’s event. Read more about high tech fuel
- BOC Healthcare has installed a pipeline system to deliver Heliox gas to patients’ bedsides at St Peter’s Hospital in Chertsey, Surrey. It is the first system of this type in the UK. Read more about first Heliox pipline system
- A team of 15 year old students from Moorside High School in Manchester were the 2009 winners of BOC’s Year 10 Science Challenge today (Tuesday). They and the other schools taking part had been asked to design, build and test a ‘direct cooler’. This is a vital part of the air separation process, the method by which BOC extracts oxygen, nitrogen and argon from the air around us. Read more about BOC challenges Manchester schools
- Steven Kokolin has been named as Wales’ top welding apprentice after winning this year’s Welder Wales competition. Read more about bright sparks for Welsh manufacturing
- Kyle Tinney is Scotland’s best apprentice welder – and that’s official! He won the title at the Scottish Welder Competition, held at Cumbernauld College, and was presented with his prize by the Secretary of State for Scotland, Jim Murphy MP. Read more Scoatland's top welding apprentice
- As part of a programme to reduce its environmental impact, leading industrial gases provider BOC has entered into a three year agreement with Veolia Environmental Services. The new agreement will focus on measures to minimise waste and to achieve environmental best practice at its sites around the UK. Read more about BOC aims to drive down environmental impacts
- A highly innovative approach to hydrogen transport – the Riversimple Urban Car – was launched today (16 June), thanks in part to industrial gases supplier BOC who gave original funding for the project and who are providing continuing support and advice. Read more about BOC helps hydrogen transport take a major step forward
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For general enquiries about BOC please telephone 0800 111 333 or email: custserv@boc.com
For media enquiries, please contact:
Susan Tyzack, BOC Communications Manager.
Email: susan.tyzack@boc.com
Simon Napper, BOC External Communications.
Email: simon.napper@boc.com
