BUSINESS

Cylinders Holding:

history, quality, experience

Cylinder production with a century of tradition

Cylinders Holding is a leading producer in high-pressure

seamless steel cylinders, pressure vessels, and highpressure gas containers. Their tradition of steel cylinder

production goes back more than a hundred years;

for decades it has been closely connected to Ostrava

and the Moravian-Silesian Region, but it also extends

to neighbouring countries. Products and innovative

solutions provided by Cylinders Holding are delivered

to customers in countries all over the world.

mainly virtual gas pipe technology, automotive CNG,

and cutting-edge trends in the use of hydrogen.

Cylinders Holding is a group which has grown upon the

tradition of Vítkovice Ironworks (est. 1828). In 1999 the

Holding parted from the machinery plants of Vítkovice

and has developed as an independent section, in three

strictly defined spheres: pressure cylinders and vessels,

applications (mobile and stationary gas containers),

and services. In 2017 the Holding introduced anew

logo and underwent an overall rebranding.

From 1906, when the first pressure steel cylinder was

made in Ostrava, straight through to the present, the

companies of Cylinders Holding have produced and

distributed over 25 million high-pressure steel cylinders

made in their own facilities according to their own

know-how based on the unique method of reverse

extrusion from a block of steel. These products are used

in a wide range of applications from small cylinders in

respiration equipment to large pressure vessels used in

trailers and containers of virtual gas pipe technology.

Cylinders Holding is a growing international corporation

exclusively owned by Czech capital, with customers

and business partners, hundreds of companies in over

70 countries all over the world.

The group’s research and development have recently

focused on the mobility and storage of energy resources,

Crucial fields using steel cylinders:

• technical welding & shielding gases

• fire extinguishing technologies

• food processing & beverage industry

• medical gases

• diving and respiration equipment

• automotive

Text:

Eva Kijonková

Foto:

Radovan Horský

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