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.

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.

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.

XS Scuba named exclusive distributor for Luxfer cylinders in North America

NOTTINGHAM, England (Dec. 21, 2007) — Luxfer and its distributor Sea and Sea helped the Cambridge University Underwater Exploration Group (CUUEG) celebrate their 50th anniversary by donating 7-litre and 11-litre scuba cylinders made from Luxfer’s proprietary L6X® aluminium alloy, together with valves, as fund-raising prizes for the group’s celebration ball.

ORLANDO, Florida (Oct. 31-Nov. 2, 2007)—Luxfer Gas Cylinders introduced its new Supernatural™ line of aluminum scuba tanks at the annual Dive Equipment Manufacturers’ Association (DEMA) exhibition and tradeshow.

NOTTINGHAM, England (Dec. 25, 2006)—The production team at the Luxfer Gas Cylinders manufacturing facility in Nottingham set a new production record by making one million cylinders in 2006—and they did it just in time for Christmas.

RIVERSIDE, Calif. (Dec. 19, 2006)—Sometime between 1740 and 1780, a fierce storm engulfed a two-masted sailing ship in treacherous waters off the Florida Keys. The storm drove the ship into the shallows, where it struck a reef and rapidly sank. About 250 men went down with the vessel, including her crew and a number of British soldiers who were being transported.

TOKYO, Japan (July 19, 2006)—Luxfer Gas Cylinders, the world’s largest manufacturer of high-pressure aluminum and composite cylinders, announced today that SK Cylinder Corporation will become a distributor of Luxfer products in Japan.

BARCELONA, Spain (June 14, 2006)—Luxfer Gas Cylinders was named to the prestigious Balanced Scorecard Hall of Fame for Executing Strategy in ceremonies here today.

RIVERSIDE, Calif. (Sept. 29, 2005)—Luxfer Gas Cylinders has announced that the Visual Eddy Mark V™ eddy-current inspection device has been tested and found suitable for use with Luxfer aluminum cylinders manufactured both from 6351 alloy and 6061 alloy. This device is manufactured by Visual Eddy Products, Inc.

FORT A.P. HILL, Va (July 15, 2005)—Thanks to XS Scuba, Inc., master distributor for Luxfer scuba tanks, some 40,000 Boy Scouts will have the chance to try scuba diving when the 2005 National Boy Scout Jamboree is held at this 76,000-acre U.S. Army facility from July 25 through Aug. 3.

RIVERSIDE, Calif. (May 25, 2005)—Luxfer Gas Cylinders announced today that it now provides customers test reports, order acknowledgements and invoices in electronic form via e-mail.

RIVERSIDE, Calif. (October 12, 2004)— Luxfer Gas Cylinders has updated its inspection and replacement policy for Luxfer aluminum scuba cylinders manufactured in the United States from 6351 alloy and 6061 alloy. The updated policy supersedes all previous Luxfer policy statements covering this subject.

RIVERSIDE, Calif. (October 11, 2004)—Luxfer Gas Cylinders has announced that computer-aided Visual Plus 3™ eddy-current inspection equipment is suitable for use with Luxfer aluminum cylinders manufactured both from 6351 alloy and 6061 alloy. Visual Plus 3 is manufactured and marketed by Advanced Inspection Technology, Inc. (AIT).

August 23, 2004 — Investigators continue to believe that the July 27, 2004 incident in Luraville, Florida was caused when an operator was about to fill oxygen into a scuba cylinder that was not designed for oxygen use, and most probably the valve and/or cylinder had not been purged of all organic matter. Ignition from the fall caused the organic matter in the cylinder to burn, which caused the resulting fire and explosion.

August 9, 2004 — Regulatory authorities are investigating the death of a woman who was injured while attempting to fill a scuba cylinder with pure oxygen. The cylinder fell over, burned and exploded at Cave Excursions dive shop in Luraville, Florida, on July 27, 2004.

October 22, 2002—After more than five years of development and testing, Luxfer Gas Cylinders has launched the first two models in the “Luxfer Limited” line, the world’s highest-pressure scuba diving cylinders—also the first composite cylinders in the scuba industry.

Please note the following product safety notice issued by Abysmal Diving, a distributor of Luxfer scuba cylinders. Although the notice refers to Thermo scuba valves used with Luxfer cylinders, Luxfer Gas Cylinders wishes to emphasize that the notice is not a result of any action or omission on the part of Thermo Valve Corporation.