Exhibitor profiles and offers

Name of company / organization:

Iceblick, Ltd.

Name of principle person or persons attending the exhibition / conference

Vitaly Bondarenko, Chairman of the Board of Directors
Doctor of Sciences, Vice-President of Science and Technology Council of the International Institute of Refrigeration (IIR), Academician of the International Academy of Refrigeration
Tel.: +38 (0482) 37-70-12
E-mail: office@iceblick.com


Vladimir Sachura, General Director
Laureate of International Award of Golden Mercury 2005 / International Corporation of Social Partnership Europe Business Assembly, Oxford, England
Tel: +38 (0482) 37-29-35
E-mail: vladimir@iceblick.com


Nadiya Golovchenko, Manager, Specialty Gases International
Tel: +38 (0482) 37-70-12
E-mail: nadia@iceblick.com


Olga Simonenko, Marketing Manager
Tel: +38 (0482) 37-29-35
E-mail: helia@list.ru


Yurii Symonenko
Tel: +38 (0482) 37-70-12
E-mail: office@iceblick.com


Contacts:
29, Pastera street, 65026 Odessa, Ukraine

Type of business in which you are involved

Iceblick Ltd. was founded in 1992 as a result of creative and business collaboration of the companies from Ukraine, the USA, Russia, and Kazakhstan. Our company is a reliable partner for the world leading gas companies. A considerable part of gas products is delivered directly to companies - consumers in the laser, electronic, electric-bulb, medical, space and other industries. The Iceblick international group is one of the leaders in the world market of gas products. It produces about 60% of the world consumption of neon and more than 20% of krypton and xenon.
Principal Activity:
  • production and sale of high purity rare gases (krypton, xenon, neon) for the industrial and analytical purposes;
  • research and development of new high-performance technologies and equipment for producing rare gases that can meet the customers' present and prospective requirements;
  • development and application of high-precision analysis methods, which guarantee the required quality of produced rare gases and their mixtures;
  • purification of freon R14 and RC318;
  • production of neon isotopes;
  • production of gaseous and liquefied helium for various industries

Quality Maintenance Program:
  • raw materials acceptance testing and grading before final stage of purification;
  • inspection of containers (cylinders, recipients and cryogenic capacities) before filling;
  • quality control over the preparation of the purification devices and equipment that come into contact with the purified product;
  • technological gas analysis in the process of rare gases purification and separation;
  • quality walkthrough at all the processing stages

Specific offer to American companies

The following companies in the USA, Western Europe, Asia are the primary consumers of the produced rare gases Æ BOC Group (USA), Linde AG (Germany), Air Liquide (France), Messer Griesheim GmbH (Germany), Spectra Gases, Inc. (USA), AGA - Linde Group (USA), Airgas Specialty Gases (USA), General Electric (USA), Showa Denko K.K. (Japan) and others.
Products manufactured by our company are used in various areas of modern technology. Lighting industry is a traditional sphere of rare gases application. It consumes more than 40% of krypton and xenon produced, as well as 1/5 of neon. The growth of fuel cost promotes the demand for energy-saving light sources based on the use of krypton. More economic light diodes and compact fluorescent devices are more and more widely used instead of classic incandescent lamps. The construction industry is a large consumer of krypton, used by hundreds of enterprises producing glass packs. Intense competition forces the increasing number of manufacturers to use gas-filled window panels, which make 2/3 of the whole number of glass packs in developed countries. Replacement of air in the inter-glass space with heavy inert gases (primarily krypton and argon) allows for an increase in the thermal resistance of the gaseous space 1.5-2 times. New technologies of energy saving in construction become indispensable in the zones of cold and hot climate, as well as in insulating high-rise buildings. In accordance with Kyoto Protocol, many countries have introduced legislative norms regulating the effectiveness of thermal protection of constructions.
Medicine: essential growth of consumption of this gas is expected in radiography, tomography and anesthesia. Among the limiting factors are the large cost of the gas and the absence of effective methods of utilization and purification of xenon. It is expected that after creating appropriate infrastructure in the hospitals in future, the consumption of xenon in medicine will reach several thousand of cubic meters per year. A significant part of this volume will be used in laser technology.
The production of flat plasma displays will develop rapidly. Among the most important advantages of such monitors are superb color spectrum, brightness and a wide angle of viewing. Plasma screens are produced by filling the space between two glass surfaces with the mixture of inert gases (Ne+Xe). Besides advertisements and other professional applications, plasma monitors find wider application in domestic use, for example, as home cinemas.
Neon is used as a propulsive mass at a level of temperatures 25... 40 in the cryogenic engineering. Solid Neon is used as a refrigerant for cooling on-board infrared sensors to increase their sensitivity. Isotopes are atom modifications of the same element that have different mass numbers. They have an identical structure of the electron shell and are chemically almost identical. In most cases, the differences in the isotopes physical properties of gaseous elements are also hardly perceptible.
Tetrafluoromethane (R-14) is applied as a cooling agent for achieving the temperatures of 120-150 and when mixed with nitrogen Æ up to 95. In the last few decades, the consumption of Freon as reagent for the dry etching of chips has been steadily growing in the electronic industry.
Freon-318 (cyclofluorbutane) is used not only in the electronic industry but also as a refrigerant for air conditioners and electric power plants and a propellant for aerosol packing. In the last decades, the steady increase of freons R-14 and R318 consumption in electronic industry was scheduled as a reactant for dry etching of the integral schemes.
Iceblick Ltd. - one of few companies in the world making helium 99,9999% from air. For this reason this product has a minimum concentration of hydrocarbon impurities (< 0,1ppm).

Iceblick products
Neon gas in cylinders, bundles, tube containers
Neon Ne 99.999%
Hydrogen H2 ppm 0.5
Helium He ppm 5.0
Nitrogen N2 ppm 1.0
Oxygen O2 ppm 0.5
Carbon oxides CO+CO2 ppm 0.5
Hydrocarbons CnHm ppm 0.1
Moisture H2O ppm 1.0

Stable neon isotopes in cylinders with volume from 0.4 up to 50 liters
20Ne 99.95%
21Ne 0.001
22Ne 0.05
Total Ne 99.998
20Ne 0.05%
21Ne 0.001
22Ne 99.95
Total Ne 99.998

Krypton and xenon in cylinders with volume from 2 up to 50 liters
Krypton Kr 99.999%
Hydrogen H2 ppm 0.5
Nitrogen N2 ppm 2.0
Oxygen O2 ppm 0.5
Argon Ar ppm 0.1
Xenon Xe ppm 1.0
Carbon oxides CO+ CO2 ppm 0.5
Moisture H2O ppm 1.0
Hydrocarbons CnHm ppm 0.5
Fliorides CF4+ C2F6+ SF6 ppm 0.5

Xenon Xe 99.999%
Hydrogen H2 ppm 0.5
Nitrogen N2 ppm 2.0
Oxygen O2 ppm 0.5
Argon Ar ppm 0.1
Krypton Kr ppm 1.0
Carbon oxides CO+CO2 ppm 0.5
Moisture H2O ppm 1.0
Hydrocarbons CnHm ppm 0.5
Fliorides CF4+C2F6+SF6 ppm 0.5
 
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