Luxfer Cylinders

SALFORD, England (April 27, 2011)--Luxfer Group, international manufacturer of high- pressure gas cylinders and high-performance materials and the parent company of Luxfer Gas Cylinders, has secured a £110-million refinancing package from a consortium of three banks, plus Pricoa (Prudential Company of America).

Luxfer Gas Cylinders, the world’s largest manufacturer of high-pressure aluminum and composite cylinders, has launched a completely redesigned, all-new website at www.luxfercylinders.com.

Following the tsunami in Japan, electricity shortages have meant that oxygen therapy patients who would usually use concentrators are unable to do so. This has created a desperate need for oxygen cylinders as an alternative mode of therapy.

Luxfer Gas Cylinders occasionally receives inquiries from fire departments and first-responders concerning the possibility of purchasing cylinders directly from Luxfer for use in self-contained breathing apparatus (SCBA) and life-support equipment.

NOTTINGHAM, England (Sept. 9, 2010)—Luxfer Gas Cylinders will introduce IOS™, its new easy-to-use, highly portable Intelligent Oxygen System, at the European Respiratory Society Annual Congress in Barcelona Sept. 18-22.

LOS ANGELES, Calif. (July 8, 2010)-Guerrilla Air announced that, together with Luxfer Gas Cylinders, they have released the lightest-weight 68/4500 paintball tank and air system in the market.

CORAL GABLES, Florida (May 12, 2010)—Luxfer Gas Cylinders was the recipient of two important Compressed Gas Association (CGA) awards at an awards banquet April 27, held in conjunction with the 97th Annual CGA Meeting.

NOTTINGHAM, England (Feb. 25, 2010) – Luxfer Gas Cylinders and the Hardstaff Group will exhibit together at the Semaine Internationale du Transport et de la Logistique (SITL) show in Paris March 23-26 to showcase Hardstaff’s patented dual fuel system that simultaneously burns natural gas and diesel.

RIVERSIDE, Calif. (Jan. 1, 2010)—Luxfer Gas Cylinders has once again been named an approved vendor for the Independent Welding Distributors Cooperative (IWDC), a group of independently owned businesses offering a full line of gas and welding equipment, supplies and safety products throughout North America.

RIVERSIDE, Calif. (Jan. 1, 2010)—Luxfer Gas Cylinders is featured in a special company profile article in the January 2010 issue of Fleets & Fuels, the biweekly publication that focuses on “alternative-technology vehicles and the fuels that drive them.”

NOTTINGHAM, England (4th December 2009)—BOC Healthcare has announced the introduction of its ultra-lightweight l-litre, 300-bar oxygen cylinders that weight just 1.55 kg at full capacity. The new BOC product features Luxfer’s Odyssey-L7X® composite cylinders, which include liners made from Luxfer’s patented L7X aluminium alloy wrapped with aerospace-grade carbon fibre.

SYDNEY, Australia (10 November 2009)—Luxfer Gas Cylinders has received enquiries about the rupture of a scuba cylinder in New South Wales on 16 August 2009. Various accounts of the incident, including several safety alerts, have been published, some of which may have led readers to believe that Luxfer manufactured the cylinder involved in the incident. This is not the case.

August 12, 2009 - Luxfer position concerning life extension of DOT CFFC carbon composite cylinders.

XS Scuba named exclusive distributor for Luxfer cylinders in North America