Sri Lankan Liquid Petroleum (LP) gas company Laugfs announced the signing of a joint venture agreement with the Bharat Petroleum Corporation Ltd. of India, to bring to the local market what it terms as an “innovative metal cutting gas”. It was launched under the brand name “Laugfs Bharat Metal Cutting Gas” (LBMCG) recently, and is expected to revolutionize the industrial sector, offering safe cutting gas at a lower cost.
Commenting on the new product the Chairman of Laugfs Gas PLC, W K Wegapitiya said that LBMCG is a Hydrocarbon-based industrial gas with a high flame temperature which produces an un-paralleled fine cut finish and at a very low cost compared to Acetylene. LBMCG is used in the applications of cutting, brazing, heating, soldering, coating gas surfacing, flame spraying, flame straightening and hardening. According to Wegapitiya, the existing cutting gas that is available in the country and is the most commonly used metal cutting gas in Sri Lanka- Acetylene, which is mixed with Oxygen.
Wegapitiya commented that this was a great achievement for the company. “We will be using our existing as well as new infrastructure to make available our new product across the country including the North and East. The introduction of LBMCG is expected to revolutionize the country’s industrial sector by reducing the cutting gas cost by a significant amount giving considerable cost savings to industrial users,” he added.
source - www.dailymirror.lk
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