Worthington to acquire Hy-Mark Cylinders

[FritzCat66]

I just ran into this press release from Worthington dated 6/21/2010 and had not yet seen it here, the official receptacle of all things SCUBA, so here 'tis:

Worthington Industries to Acquire Hy-Mark Cylinders

According to the release, Hy-Mark's assets will be moved from Virginia to an existing Worthington site which apparently only makes medical cylinders right now.

Of special interest to us:

The assets will be relocated to the Worthington Cylinders Mississippi manufacturing location complementing the medical cylinder lines, and adding a range of beverage grade, industrial cylinders and aluminum scuba tanks... “We’re excited to add Hymark’s products to our current aluminum cylinder offering of medical cylinders, as well expand our capabilities into markets that we sell into today including scuba, carbon dioxide and industrial,” added Harry Goussetis, President of Worthington Cylinders.

Perhaps we'll be seeing Worthington/XS-branded aluminum cylinders in the near future?

 

[PhilEllis]

I would bet on it. Worthington's relationship with XS Scuba is very strong.

Phil Ellis
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[Rainer]

Any follow up on this? All I see is XS distributing Luxfer and Catalina aluminum cylinders.

 

[Ragnar]

Anything further on this? A shop here has some new 80's with Worthington info labels on them and XS in the stamping, I'm guessing they are the new Hy-Mark's made by Worthington and distributed by XS. This is getting confusing.

I wonder if the Luxfers that only XS are distributing are still marked as Luxfers, I would hope so.