Luxfer Holdings PLC

Luxfer Holdings PLC together with its subsidiaries designs manufactures and supplies high-performance materials components and high-pressure gas containment devices for defense and emergency response healthcare transportation and general industrial end-market applications. It operates in two segments Elektron and Gas Cylinders. The Elektron segment focuses on specialty materials based primarily on magnesium and zirconium. This segment also provides magnesium alloys for use in variety of industries; magnesium powders for use in countermeasure flares as well as heater meals; photoengraving plates for graphic arts; and zirconium-based materials and oxides used as catalysts and in the manufacture of advanced ceramics fiber-optic fuel cells pharmaceuticals and other performance products. The Gas Cylinders segment manufactures and markets specialized products using carbon composites and aluminum alloys including pressurized cylinders for use in various applications comprising self-contained breathing apparatus (SCBA) for firefighters containment of oxygen and other medical gases for healthcare alternative fuel vehicles and general industrial applications. Luxfer Holdings PLC has operations in the United States the United Kingdom Germany Italy France rest of Europe the Asia Pacific and internationally. The company was founded in 1898 and is headquartered in Milwaukee Wisconsin.