Island Air Products Corporation (IAPC) was born out of a shared vision of brothers Carlito and Cesar P. Monastrial. Its beginnings can be traced back to a small time trading business selling scraps and junk in the early 1960’s. The search for valuable tanks lead them to discover oxygen tanks and their potential for profit, and it wasn’t long before “Manila Welding Supply” was registered to sell and distribute Oxygen and Acetylene. Proving their instincts correct, the business flourished from the initial 5 employees to 20. Unfortunate events and personal challenges in the late 1960s meant they had to let go of the business, but this merely fueled the brother’s determination to try again. LPG was to be their new frontier, taking a risk in this competitive industry meant not selling a single one of the thousand cylinders they invested in for the first two months. But their patience was rewarded when the destruction from Typhoon Yuling disrupted the industry’s landscape in their favor. While competitors ran out of cylinders the brothers capitalized on the opportunity by selling everything in their inventory in less than two days. It was the start they needed.