Industries We Serve

Steelhead Composites supports a wide range of industrial and research applications, providing safe, efficient, and compliant gas storage solutions for diverse environments.

  • Advanced Manufacturing
  • Energy & Power Systems
  • Defense & Aerospace
  • Laboratory & R&D Facilities
  • Oil, Gas & Mining
  • Food & Beverage Processing
  • Environmental & Life Sciences

Industrial and research operations demand versatile, durable, and certified gas storage solutions. Steelhead Composites provides composite overwrapped pressure vessels (COPVs) engineered to safely store a wide variety of gases, including hydrogen, nitrogen, helium, and CO₂. Our vessels are designed for stationary, mobile, and lab-scale use, offering corrosion resistance, long service life, and compatibility with extreme operating environments. 

From ground storage to trailer-mounted transport systems, Steelhead delivers scalable solutions tailored to customer needs. With ASME, ISO, CE, and DOT certifications, we ensure compliance across global deployments. Whether supporting industrial manufacturing, environmental control, or cutting-edge hydrogen R&D, Steelhead enables safe, efficient, and future-ready operations.

Challenges

Scalable storage for varied gas types

Industrial and research environments often require flexible storage solutions for a wide range of gases—such as nitrogen, helium, carbon dioxide, and hydrogen—each with unique containment and compatibility requirements. Steelhead’s composite overwrapped pressure vessels (COPVs) are engineered to accommodate diverse gas chemistries and pressure ratings, offering scalable configurations from lab-scale to industrial-scale deployments.

Harsh operational environments (corrosive, high-temp, remote)

Many industrial and field-based applications expose vessels to extreme conditions, including corrosive chemicals, high temperatures, and remote or rugged terrain. Steelhead’s vessels are built with corrosion-resistant liners and robust composite shells, ensuring long-term durability and performance in environments where traditional metal tanks may degrade or fail.

Compliance with USA and international codes

Global deployment of pressure vessels requires adherence to a complex matrix of regulatory standards, including ASME BPVC, DOT, ISO 11119, and CE certifications. Steelhead’s engineering and quality assurance teams ensure that every vessel meets or exceeds the necessary compliance requirements for safe and legal use across jurisdictions.

Solutions and Recommendations

Steelhead ground-mounted composite pressure-vessel storage modules deployed at an industrial energy site, showing stationary high-capacity gas and hydrogen storage containers integrated with facility infrastructure, with vent stacks and utility connections visible under a partly cloudy sky.
Large & Ground Storage Vessels for Stationary Energy and Research Use

Steelhead provides high-capacity composite pressure vessels engineered specifically for fixed installations—whether for industrial gas storage, energy buffering systems, or laboratory environments. Our vessels deliver long service life, low maintenance requirements, and reliable performance across a broad range of gases and operating pressures. This makes them an excellent choice for permanent infrastructure as well as precision-driven research applications.

Steelhead skid-mounted composite pressure vessel module featuring multiple vertically oriented COPVs secured within a reinforced steel frame, designed for safe transport and deployment of compressed gases for industrial, energy, and field operations.
Mobile Transport Solutions for Site-to-Site Delivery

Steelhead delivers mobile composite storage systems designed for reliable transport of gases between facilities or out to remote worksites. Our skid-mounted and trailer-integrated vessels provide safe handling, high payload efficiency, and rapid deployment in the field—ideal for industries such as oil and gas, mining, mobile fueling, and remote research operations.

Technician loading a composite pressure vessel into a water-jacket proof-testing chamber inside a manufacturing test facility, preparing the cylinder for hydrostatic validation as part of certification and performance verification.
Testing & Certification for Complex or Global Deployment

Steelhead provides full-spectrum testing and certification services—including hydrostatic, burst, fatigue, and environmental validation—to confirm vessel performance under demanding operational conditions. Our processes support compliance with stringent domestic and international regulations, ensuring each system is fully qualified for deployment in highly regulated, mission-critical, and global applications.

Relevant Projects

Field-deployed military support site with interconnected environmental control units, power distribution panels, and tented medical or operations shelters, illustrating the type of mobile infrastructure where Steelhead composite pressure vessels integrate into defense breathing-air and hydrogen generation systems.

Defense breathing air systems, hydrogen generation & deployment systems

Steelhead’s vessels are used in military-grade breathing air systems and hydrogen generation platforms, where reliability, portability, and safety are paramount. These systems support field operations, mobile energy units, and mission-critical logistics.

Aerial view of an industrial facility with cooling towers, storage tanks, piping networks, and rooftop solar panels, representing the type of manufacturing and processing environment where composite pressure vessels are used for CO₂, nitrogen, helium, and buffer-air gas storage and regulation.

Industrial gas storage for carbon dioxide, buffer air storage, nitrogen, helium storage and systems

Our COPVs are deployed in industrial facilities for the storage and regulation of various gases used in manufacturing, food processing, and environmental control. Their lightweight design and corrosion resistance make them ideal for both indoor and outdoor installations.

Close-up view of a vehicle-mounted fuel cell power unit with associated components and plumbing, representing the type of hydrogen energy system supported by Steelhead’s custom storage-integrated R&D test skids for fuel cell, electrolyzer, and combustion research.

R&D hydrogen testing skids

Steelhead supports research institutions and technology developers with custom hydrogen storage solutions integrated into test skids. These systems enable safe experimentation with fuel cells, electrolyzers, and hydrogen combustion technologies—accelerating innovation in clean energy and propulsion.