Case study · Medical · 1980s

Stainless canisters for affordable liquid oxygen

In the 1980s, we became a contract manufacturer for a company making affordable liquid oxygen systems. We built the stainless-steel, thermos-style canisters at the heart of them.

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The outcome

Precision stainless canisters that helped make home liquid oxygen systems affordable.

Client
Liquid oxygen systems manufacturer
Industry
Medical
When
1980s
Made in
Riviera Beach, Florida
Services
CNC machiningComponent manufacturing
1980sProgram era
304Stainless steel
1,000sCanisters built
01

The challenge

Liquid oxygen systems need vessels that are clean, precise, and repeatable, at a price that makes the whole system affordable.

02

What we did

  1. Machined the stainless-steel canister components (not the regulator or the full system)
  2. Scaled from early runs into steady production as the customer grew
  3. Managed outside services through our quality system
03

The result

Thousands of canisters over roughly a decade of production, and one of the programs that pushed the shop into CNC machining and a formal quality system in the 1980s.

Why it matters

What this means for your part.

01

Cost is a spec, too

Clean, repeatable stainless work at a price that let the whole system reach more patients.

02

Scaled with the customer

From early runs to steady production as their business grew.

03

Outside services, one owner

Finishing and processing managed through our quality system.

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