Author - Dr Roy S Irani

Mankind has been relying on medicinal gases being supplied to them in various types of gas ‘containers’ for over 120 years.

Both the words ‘standard’ and ‘safe’ have played an important part of my life working with gas cylinder packages over the past several decades. So you can imagine my joy when the Editor requested that...

For my current article, the editor has requested me to gaze into my crystal ball and rather rashly…I have accepted the challenge, so here goes!

Regardless of which industry we work in and whether we are aware of it or not, standards affect all of us, every day of our lives. Some of you may groan at this topic, but...

Over my past few publications for gasworld I have skirted around the overall theme of the current article. That is because, in recent years, gas receptacles’ users have taken all the earlier concerns regarding the safety...

Oxygen…a gas which is essential to life, but if not treated with respect, will claim life. As its name implies, it is an oxidising gas which will promote combustion at the slightest provocation. In the...

They say that ‘a week in politics is a long time!” Well, the relative rate of change in the gas cylinder business is, at times, following a similar comparison.

Gaseous hydrogen has long been a challenge for mankind, though the gas has enormous potential for its harnessing by man. Who can forget the Hindenburg disaster with the loss of 35 lives in 1937, or...

For almost a century now, gas cylinders have been used with an ever-increasing degree of sophistication in the area of medical applications. The latter include both domiciliary, hospital and ambulatory use; each with their particular...

Where does one start in such a wide field? After all, we have been manufacturing and testing gas cylinders for over a hundred years.