Luxfer Gas Cylinders recently announced that it will restructure its cylinder manufacturing operations in the U.S. and England in 2008.
In Riverside, Luxfer currently operates an aluminum cylinder plant and service center in the same large factory, as well as two composite cylinder operations in separate facilities. The company also manufactures aluminum liners for composite cylinders in Huntington Beach at its Hydrospin unit.
As part of the phased restructuring, Luxfer will move all aluminum cylinder manufacturing from Riverside to its plants in North Carolina and England and then consolidate its two U.S. composite cylinder plants into the same large factory in Riverside that had previously made aluminum cylinders. Large-diameter composite liner manufacturing operations will also be moved from Huntington Beach into the single Riverside facility; small-diameter aluminum liner operations will remain in Huntington Beach. Service center operations will cease.
