Luxfer Holdings PLC, together with its subsidiaries, provides high-performance materials, components, and high-pressure gas containment devices for defense, first response and healthcare, transportation, and general industrial applications. It operates through three segments: Gas Cylinders, Elektron, and Graphic Arts.
The Gas Cylinders segment manufactures and markets specialized highly engineered cylinders using composites and aluminum alloys, including pressurized cylinders for use in various applications, such as self-contained breathing apparatus for firefighters, containment of oxygen and other medical gases for healthcare, alternative fuel vehicles, and general industrial applications.
The Elektron segment focuses on specialty materials based primarily on magnesium and zirconium. This segment offers advanced lightweight magnesium alloys; magnesium powders for use in countermeasure flares and heater meals; and high-performance zirconium-based materials and oxides used as catalysts, as well as in the manufacture of advanced ceramics, fiber-optic fuel cells, and various other performance products.
The Graphic Arts segment provides pre-sensitized magnesium and copper and zinc plates along with associated chemicals to produce foil-stamping and embossing dies; and non-sensitized polished brass and magnesium plates for computer numerical control engraving, as well as advises on turnkey engraving operations with etching machines, computer-to-plate machines, exposure units, and film setters.
The company operates in the United States, the United Kingdom, Japan, Germany, France, rest of Europe, the Asia Pacific, South and Latin America, Canada, and Brazil. Luxfer Holdings PLC was founded in 1898 and is based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
