Among the many uses of acetylene gas, the largest and perhaps the most familiar is it's use in the form of cylinder gas for metal fabrication and construction. When combined with oxygen in an oxy-acetylene torch, acetylene produces a flame temperature in excess of 6,000F, the hottest flame of all hydrocarbon gases. This provides the means to cut or join many types of metal, cleanse them of surface imperfections, and strengthen them through flame hardening.

Carbide Industries provides calcium carbide to both large national distributors of industrial gases and to numerous smaller independently owned businesses, which generate acetylene for cylinder filling at numerous locations throughout the US, Canada, and the Caribbean.