EDIT:just a matter of time this one takes off! Sure, like Mothra... How about: lack of take off? like the lack of advanced knowledge given to our Navy 2 weeks prior Pearl Harbor... Keep investing for the other side... They expect it! Matheson, Old established American company sold out to the "Rising Sun"......... You'll love this: (from the Matheson website/history) (playing in the backround) "America, America, God shed his grace on thee" 1895 First Air Separation Plant, Dr. Otto von Linde 1910 Nippon Sanso Corporation Founded in Tokyo, Japan 1927 Matheson Gas Products Founded by Adam Matheson in North Bergen, NJ 1929 Matheson Developed the First Lecture Bottle 1929 Matheson Joined the Compressed Gas Association 1947 Invention of the First Transistor 1957 Sputnik, the World’s First Artificial Satellite, Launched by the Soviet Union 1960 Invention of First Gas Laser (Helium/Neon) 1966 Matheson Acquired Grey Chemical, Gloucester, MA 1969 First Man Walks on the Moon 1981 Matheson Received the Semmy Award as the World’s First Commercial Producer of Silane 1983 Matheson is Purchased by Nippon Sanso and AmeriGas/UGI 1987 Tri-Gas Established in Dallas, TX 1988 Matheson Equipment Technology Center Launched in Montgomeryville, PA 1989 Matheson is Fully Owned by Nippon Sanso Corporation, Tokyo, Japan 1990 Matheson Acquired Semi-Gas Systems, San Jose, CA 1992 Tri-Gas is Purchased by Nippon Sanso Corporation, Tokyo, Japan 1994 Matheson Acquired BandGap, Longmont, CO (now Advanced Technology Center) 1997 Matheson Gas Products Korea Plant Opened in Cheonan, Korea 1999 Matheson Tri-Gas Formed as Matheson Gas Products and Tri-Gas Merge 2004 Taiyo Nippon Sanso Corporation Formed as Nippon Sanso Corporation and Taiyo Toyo Sanso Corporation Merge 2004 Matheson Tri-Gas Purchased Six Air Separation Plants from Air Liquide 2006 Matheson Tri-Gas Purchased Linweld, Inc., Lincoln, NE 2006 Matheson Tri-Gas Global Helium Formed 2006 Matheson Gas Products Korea Opened in Asan, Korea 2007 Matheson Tri-Gas Acquires Polar Cryogenics 2008 Matheson Tri-Gas Acquires Five Star Gas & Gear, Cedar Rapids Welding Supply, Aeris, and Advanced Gas Technologies 2008 Matheson Tri-Gas and IBM Collaborate on Semiconductor Manufacturing 2009 Matheson Tri-Gas Acquires Valley National Gases