Luxfer Cylinders

When the Eric Vigouroux Racing (EVR) team’s truck roars off to compete in the world-famous Dakar Rally in 2013, Luxfer composite cylinders will be on board to allow the driver to raise or lower tire pressures to adapt to off-road terrain changes, a key factor in maintaining traction on loose surfaces such as sand.

SALFORD, England (17 September 2012)—Luxfer Group (Luxfer Holdings PLC), the global materials technology company serving the environmental, healthcare and protection markets, today announced that at a general meeting on Friday, 14 September 2012, the shareholders of Dynetek Industries Limited voted overwhelmingly to accept Luxfer’s offer to acquire Dynetek. All required approvals being in place, the transaction closed today.

SALFORD, England (July 31, 2012)—Luxfer Holdings PLC (“Luxfer Group”), the global materials technology company serving the environmental, healthcare and protection markets, today announced that it had entered into an arrangement agreement with Dynetek Industries Ltd. (“Dynetek”) to acquire all of the issued and outstanding common shares of Dynetek. The Dynetek board of directors, led by Executive Chairman Douglas Pigot, has unanimously recommended that Dynetek shareholders approve the transaction.

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.”