A-Gas AU’s facility at Laverton is located between the centre of Melbourne and the airport. The site comprises a modern office building which houses management, sales support and administration personnel in a modern environment incorporating sophisticated IT equipment. The second stage expansion, including the awarding of AS/NZS ISO 9001:2000 & AS/NZS 4801:2001 quality certification, commissioned in 2002 includes the incorporation of an additional 7 bulk storage tanks and a new state of the art laboratory equipped with analytical and testing equipment to provide quality control and product development activities. The facility employs the latest computerised filling equipment for a range of drums and cylinders, currently 120,000 cylinders in a variety of sizes including 12 kg, 22 kg and 70 kg. Cylinders are rated for the new high-pressure HFC gases, such as R410A, and this allows for optimum supply logistics. All cylinders are fitted with sophisticated new valves to ensure ease of use and integrity of contents.
A-Gas AU in conjunction with its distributors sell and promote pre-filled cylinders of refrigerant within the Australian HVAC&R market. All cylinders are bar coded and tracked under the A-Gas in-house tracking system ‘CyltrakTM, which in conjunction with Microsoft Great Plains received the Microsoft Business Solution Award for Innovation in 2003, and has been introduced to other A-Gas sites. This service has provided the market with the highest quality packaging and product quality whilst meeting statutory and regulatory compliance issues. This change provides improved environment and safety benefits to the customer as well as economic benefits as more expensive HFC products become available.
A-Gas AU has 10 bulk storage tanks, with blending facilities providing total storage capacity of over 500 tonnes. Further investment is currently being made in additional cylinders and plant for our new venture into OFN (Oxygen Free Nitrogen) and other specialty gases, such as refrigerant grade carbon dioxide (Co2).
