Everest Kanto Cylinder Limited was incorporated as Everest Kanto Cylinder Private Limited on 24th June 1978 under the Act. The company was promoted jointly by the families of Khuranas and Thakkar, both the families having trading background in High Pressure Seamless gas cylinders. Being conversant with the market, they identified a gap in the small cylinders market segment in the country, and jointly decided to put up a cylinder manufacturing unit in the year 1978. Later on, Mr J. T. Thakkar and family withdrew from the business and transferred his interest to Mr P. K. Khurana in September 1983. Due to the aggregate turnover exceeding the prescribed limits, the Company became a deemed public company as per the provisions of the Act, namely section 43A of the Act in July 1, 1989. Subsequently, due to the amendment effected to the said Section 43A of the Act, the Company reverted to being a private limited company. On June 7, 2005, the company was converted into a public limited company and received fresh Certificate of Incorporation consequent to change of name to Everest Kanto Cylinder Limited. The first manufacturing facility suitable for manufacturing small sized seamless cylinders of water capacity (1 to 21 litres) was set-up in collaboration with Kanto Koatsu Yoki Manufacturing Company, a Japanese cylinder manufacturer at Aurangabad in the year 1978. Later, EKC expanded its manufacturing capacity with in house technology by setting up a new facility at Tarapur in the year 1985 to manufacture large sized cylinders of higher water capacities (21 to 80 litres) which was later expanded to manufacture the widest range of High Pressure Gas cylinders with water capacity up to 280 litres and capable of withstanding extreme working pressure of upto 400 Bar. In order to tap the emerging potential for cylinders in markets like Iran, Pakistan, Bangladesh etc, EKC set up a new state of the art manufacturing facility at Dubai, which has gone into commercial production during 2003-04. Dubai plant has been set up in the Jebel Ali Free Trade Zone Area and functions as a Branch office of EKC under the operating name of "EKC Industries". In sum, the company has state of the art manufacturing facilities at Aurangabad, Tarapur and Dubai (UAE) and manufactures its cylinders from seamless tubes of international quality. 2007 - The Company has splits its face value from Rs10/- to Rs2/-. 2008 -Everest Kanto has received an order from Pakistan and Middle East countries for the supply of CNG cylinders 2009 -Everest Kanto Cylinder has completed the acquisition of a majority stake (72.65%) in Calcutta Compressions & Liquefaction Engineering Pvt. Ltd 2010 -Everest Kanto Cylinder has received orders for the export of CNG cylinders aggregating to about USD 5 Million. -Everest Kanto Cylinder has established a wholly owned subsidiary (WOS) in Thailand by the name of EKC Industries (Thailand) Co. Ltd. 2011 -Mr. Vipin Chandok has been appointed as the Chief Financial Officer of the Company 2012 -Everest Kanto Cylinder sets up of step down wholly owned subsidiary in Germany -Mr. P. K. Khurana has been appointed as Managing Director of the Company 2013 -Everest Kanto Cylinder Ltd Mr. P. M. Samvatsar as appointed as Director of the company.