Corrugated stainless steel tubing (CSST) has been widely used for natural and propane gas systems. Not all mechanical contractors embraced CSST, but the potential labor savings certainly were ...

CSST pipe, installed in many homes, can ignite if struck by lightning. Oct. 16, 2007 — -- An estimated 2 million homes have a kind of pipe that can explode in flames during a lightning storm ...

NASFM’s work with CSST manufacturers on a legacy yellow CSST safety campaign has potentially reached over 35 million homeowners in efforts to raise awareness for homeowners where legacy yellow ...

Major manufactures of CSST include Omega Flex, Parker-Hannifin Corp., Titeflex Corp. and Ward Manufacturing Inc. All four were included in a class action lawsuit filed in the Circuit Court of Clark ...

Members of OmegaFlex, a CSST manufacturer that ceased making the traditional yellow CSST in 2011, argued that not only is LC 1027 a patented product owned by Titeflex Corp., but independent ...

However, AHRI, on behalf of its member companies that manufacture CSST, has worked with the National Association of State Fire Marshals (NASFM) to introduce state legislation that requires home ...

The escaping gas can then be ignited, resulting in a blow-torch type flame that causes catastrophic damage. CSST failures are responsible for more than 100 residential fires each year.

The widows of two Maryland firefighters killed in the in the line-of-duty are back in the state capital to promote legislation that would prohibit the sale of first generated corrugated stainless ...