Cylinders

A national trade body is issuing a reminder to the waste sector about a returns scheme for gas cylinders.

After TrackAbout threw the spotlight on supply chain inefficiencies with liquid cylinders recently, as explored in gasworld’s February 2017 hot topic, the total cost of ownership of cylinders as a whole is now in focus with...

Amtrol-Alfa was founded in 1962 in Guimarães, north of Portugal, with the name of Petróleo Mecânica Alfa, at the time manufacturing cylinders for the LPG industry. In 1990, the company was merged with Comanor, creating...

Industrial gas safety organisation the British Compressed Gases Association (BCGA) has released new guidelines for moving gas cylinders and bundles within the workplace.

xperion Energy & Environment, a newly-acquired subsidiary of composite cylinder producer Hexagon Composites, has received a substantial order for high-pressure hydrogen (H2) cylinders from Air Products GmbH in Germany.

Chesterfield Special Cylinders’ Integrity Management team (CSC IM) has welcomed DNV GL’s move to make acoustic emissions (AE) testing the preferred method for carrying out periodical inspections of seamless gas cylinders.

Today, New Jersey-based CryoVation is a spearhead in cylinder filling technology and cylinder fill plant concepts, having grown its footprint both domestically and internationally throughout its 17 years of business. 

They say that ‘a week in politics is a long time!” Well, the relative rate of change in the gas cylinder business is, at times, following a similar comparison.

Gas cylinders present several obvious and some less-familiar hazards, including sudden decompression that can propel a cylinder remarkably quickly across the work environment/laboratory and displace breathing air, as well as the risk of explosion or...

Cylinder filling plants represent the very baseline of the packaged gas business in the industrial gas industry, a segment that is worth approximately $29bn (2015) according to gasworld Business Intelligence. Without them, there would be a...