When I joined Luxfer Gas Cylinders'purchasing team in 2015,1 could never have foreseen how hydrogen would not only transform my day job,but the alternative fuel sector too.Here,I thought I would recall how my personal career highlights have mirrored Luxfer's milestone achievements,all while giving a unique insight into how the industry is evolving.My main task when I joined Luxfer was focused on helping to establish a new alternative fuel systems capability at our manufacturing campus in Nottingham.In 2015,Luxfer was already an established and major global supplier to the compressed natural gas market,and whilst the commercial opportunities in hydrogen were small,the hydrogen market and application had been of interest to Luxfer for many years.From the late 1990s to the early 2000s Luxfer pioneered the hydrogen tank and valve technology and had continued to build on its heritage of being a world leader in lightweight cylinders,producing high pressure aluminum gas cylinders since the 1930s and carbon composite cylinders since the 1980s.
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