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Taylor-Wharton International (Cryogenic Vessel Alternatives)
American laboratory cryogenic equipment company (HQ Theodore AL; part of Worthington Industries after restructuring); manufactures laboratory and medical-grade helium dewars (typically 30-500 L) for university research, hospital MRI maintenance, and scientific instrumentation. Taylor-Wharton produces the 'Doris' series and other helium dewars that are the most common storage and transport containers at the last-mile delivery level — the helium cylinders that arrive on a hospital loading dock before being used to 'top up' an MRI magnet helium supply. Taylor-Wharton is a smaller scale alternative to Chart Industries for the non-bulk segment of the helium storage market.
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60%Bulk Cryogenic Storage Tanks
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Did you know2024
Worthington Industries (NYSE: WOR, Columbus OH) is primarily understood as a steel processing company — its Steel Processing segment blanks and slits steel coils for automotive, construction, and manufacturing customers. What is not widely known is that Worthington also owns Taylor-Wharton (cryogenic vessels for hospital MRI helium supply) and Worthington Cylinders (compressed gas cylinders for propane, CO2, industrial gases). The same Columbus Ohio company that processes flat-rolled steel for Ford F-150 body panels also manufactures the 50-liter helium dewar that a hospital technician uses to top up the MRI magnet, and the propane cylinder that heats a camping stove. Worthington Industries is a steel-based industrial company that has quietly built a position across multiple compressed and cryogenic gas container markets — spanning from the hospital MRI supply chain to the backyard camping propane market — through its cylinder and cryogenic subsidiaries.
Worthington Industries, Inc. ↗Origin2023
Taylor-Wharton traces to the 1826 Taylor Iron and Steel Company of High Bridge, New Jersey — making it one of the oldest continuous industrial manufacturers in the United States. The cryogenic vessel business emerged from industrial gas storage applications in the mid-20th century as industrial oxygen and nitrogen became major commodities. Taylor merged with Wharton Steel Works and subsequently acquired by various industrial holding companies before landing in Worthington Industries' portfolio. Worthington Industries (NYSE: WOR) is primarily a steel service center (steel processing, pressure cylinders, building products), making Taylor-Wharton an unusual cryogenic science division inside a Columbus Ohio-based steel company. The helium dewar expertise that serves hospital MRI programs and academic physics labs exists within the same corporate structure that processes steel coils for automotive and manufacturing customers.
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