Butler Gas is investing in something that directly benefits our customers: deeper specialty and medical gas knowledge across our sales and operations teams.
Jim, Ben, Abydee, and George (pictured above, left to right) recently represented Butler Gas at the 2026 PurityPlus Sales Training in Columbus, Ohio. This year’s theme, “PurityPlus Precision: Selling with Operational Awareness,” centered on an idea we strongly believe at Butler Gas: the best customer solutions happen when salespeople understand what it takes to safely produce, handle, deliver, and support the products they sell.
The training brought together PurityPlus and IWDC members from across the country to strengthen their knowledge of specialty and medical gas production, gases and cylinder systems, quality and compliance requirements, logistics, technology, and emerging applications. Participants worked through case studies and real-world scenarios designed to connect technical and operational knowledge directly to better customer conversations.
For Butler Gas, sending leaders from multiple areas of our business is intentional. Customers rarely experience sales, operations, or distribution as separate departments —they experience Butler Gas as one company. The more our team understands each other’s work, the better we can anticipate challenges, recommend the right solution, set realistic expectations, and deliver reliably after the sale.
A highlight of the week’s program was a behind-the-scenes visit to fellow independent gas distributor Delille Oxygen Company, a century-old Ohio company whose Columbus headquarters includes specialty gas laboratory and filling operations as well as hydrogen and oxygen electrolysis production. The tour gave attendees an opportunity to see how another respected independent approaches manufacturing, technology, safety, quality, and productivity — and bring those lessons home.
That industry engagement matters to our customers. Butler Gas may be locally owned and operated, but we are connected to a nationwide network of gas industry manufacturers, distributors, technical experts, and peers. Programs like PurityPlus Sales Training allow us to learn from that network, benchmark our own practices, share ideas, and continually improve the solutions we provide.
The goal is not simply to know more. It is to serve better.
When our people understand the science behind the gas, the requirements behind the specification, the equipment behind the application, and the logistics behind the delivery, we can ask better questions and solve problems more effectively.
That is how continued training translates into customer value, and another way Butler Gas provides major-supplier capabilities with local accountability and service.
Learn more about our ISO/IEC 17025:2017 PurityPlus Tier4 accredited specialty gas facility and capabilities.