It may be a lesser known fact to those outside of Czech Republic or the cylinders community, for example, but 2020 is the year that Ostrava-based Cylinders Holding celebrates 115 years of continuous manufacturing of seamless high-pressure cylinders.
A team of 1,000 people, today Cylinders Holding is a world-leader in the production of steel cylinders and has succeeded in developing a number of technologies over the last century, especially in hot forming processes well known as ‘backward extrusion’. One of many achievements in that time has been the extruded 260 litre cylinder.
Even fewer will realise that today, Cylinders Holding is one of only a handful of companies manufacturing medical oxygen cylinders in Europe during this current Covid-19 crisis.
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