Taylor-Wharton Aids National Tragedy
United We stand

Two days after the attack, employees at Taylor-Wharton’s Harrisburg, Pennsylvania plant received an urgent call for an emergency shipment of Breathing Air, Oxygen, and Inert Gas cylinders needed to sustain the rescue efforts underway in lower Manhattan. The customer explained that every available compressed gas cylinder in their inventory was already in service. The plant moved into high gear with the start of production at 6:00 the next morning. By 3:15, a complete truckload of 300 finished cylinders were being loaded for shipment to New York, where they were filled overnight to be available for the rescue effort.

Taylor-Wharton’s Huntsville, Alabama plant received a similar call for their portable SM-10 acetylene cylinders, needed by rescue crews to cut through the twisted metal supports of the collapsed towers. Knowing that this order could help the rescue efforts, 300 cylinders were completed the same day and driven straight through to New York.

Employees at the Sherwood - Superior valve plant in Washington, Pennsylvania produced 1,100 oxygen and medical breathing valves in 16 hours, starting from raw forgings and ending with finished valves. Smaller orders have also come in from gas producers and distributors for welding and cutting torch valves as well as medical gas service valves.