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## Gas & Fluid Control Products 

A s the industry's most complete and geographically diverse global supplier, Harsco's Gas & Fluid Control Group is uniquely positioned to benefit from the fundamental shift now occurring in the industrial gas industry as it becomes an increasingly global business. 

Our new Taylor-Wharton cryogenics bulk tank manufacturing facility in the Eastern European industrial center of Kosice, Slovakia is completing its successful start-up and is now supplying the European market from a solid base of lower manufacturing costs. Our operations in China and Malaysia, which produce a full range of cryogenic tanks, are similarly positioned to serve that region's projected industrial growth and increasing use of cylinder gas. 

Conditions within the traditional North American industrial gas markets have been considerably less satisfying, and we have taken the steps necessary to trim our sails by permanently eliminating costs and shedding 

## Sherwood's all- new StreamLine 

integral two-stage regulator for propane gas applications features a unique circuit breaker mechanism that can sense unexpected changes in gas flow and compensate automatically. 

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under-performing operations. When the markets return, our substantial operating leverage should enable us to take maximum advantage of the pent-up demand. 

In propane, new housing starts are at their highest levels since the 1970s, and many of these homes are being built in the outlying suburbs, beyond the reach of existing natural gas lines. Our American Welding & Tank unit is the industry's most modern and efficient propane tank producer. 

