Fertiliser firms to enhance manufacturing and provide of medical oxygen
Taking initiative to boost manufacturing and provide of medical oxygen inside their present capacities to be able to make it obtainable for hospitals throughout the nation to fight the menace of Covid-19 pandemic, main fertiliser cooperatives and state-level entities like IFFCO, Gujarat State Fertilisers and Chemicals Limited and Gujarat Narmada Valley Fertilisers & Chemicals Limited have begun augmenting its manufacturing.
The Centre is anticipating that roughly 50 metric tonnes of medical oxygen per day might be made obtainable for Corona virus sufferers by fertiliser crops located everywhere in the nation.
At a excessive stage assembly held with Minister of State for Chemicals and Fertilisers Mansukh Mandaviya, IFFCO officers knowledgeable that the corporate is placing up an oxygen plant with a capability of 200 cubic meters per hour in its Kalol unit in Gujarat and their complete capability can be 33,000 cubic meters per day.
Similarly Gujarat Narmada Valley Fertilisers & Chemicals Ltd has additionally began provide of liquid oxygen for medical objective after graduation of its air separation unit.
Gujarat State Fertilisers and Chemicals Limited has additionally made modifications of their crops and began provide liquid oxygen, official sources stated.
Both the Gujarat-based firms additional knowledgeable the minister that they’ve already began the method of enhancing their oxygen manufacturing.
Other fertiliser firms’ representatives stated that they’ll arrange medical oxygen crops in hospitals at chosen places within the nation by their company social accountability CSR funding.
