Nation | by James Kariuki
The standards agency has released new rules forcing manufacturers to invest in new materials when making cooking gas cylinders and petroleum tankers to minimise explosions.
Among them is one requiring companies to use reinforced steel and aluminium materials in making cylinders.
Kenya Bureau of Standards Managing Director Bernard Njiraini said the changes will affect cylinders, tankers, installation sites as well as other measures on handling, transporting and storage of bulk cooking gas as well as petroleum material in above-ground and under-the-ground storage units…
