‘No expiry dates for LPG cylinders’

Chennai | Friday | 22nd September, 2017

Summary:

more-inEvery year, rumours about expiry dates for LPG cylinders create a scare among at least a section of consumers. Oil companies have time and again clarified that there is no expiry date for cylinders; only the due date for mandatory tests are printed on them. Two mandatory testsA cylinder usually has a life of 15 years and mandatory tests are conducted twice during that time. Each day, 1.25% of the total cylinders in use is pulled out for tests and of these, a small percentage is scrapped. And what is this date that is printed on cylinders?.