India Inc ramps up efforts to handle oxygen shortfall

As the nation battles to satisfy the shortfall of medical grade oxygen amidst rising Covid-19 circumstances and mortality, India Inc has stepped up in a giant method. If some are importing ventilators and oxygen concentrators, quite a lot of metal producers and petrochemical corporations have diverted their sources to provide medical grade oxygen.
On Wednesday, Maruti Suzuki India Limited introduced that it’s going to shut down its factories in Haryana for 9 days starting May 1, in a bid to make oxygen out there for medical wants.
“As part of the car manufacturing process, Maruti Suzuki uses a small amount of oxygen in its factories while relatively much larger quantities are used by the manufacturers of components. In the current situation, we believe that all available oxygen should be used to save lives. Accordingly, Maruti Suzuki has decided to advance its maintenance shutdown, originally scheduled for June, to 1st to 9th May,” stated the corporate in its assertion.
The Confederation of Indian Industry (CII), on Tuesday, shaped a process power on Oxygen Supply Chain to work with Central and state governments to reinforce oxygen provide.
Companies together with Tata Group, Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL), JSW Group, Adani, ITC, and Jindal Steel and Power, to call a number of, have come ahead to supplying medical oxygen, cryogenic vessels, moveable concentrators and mills, stated CII in its assertion. While RIL is manufacturing 700 MT of liquid medical oxygen per day, it plans to lift the capability to 1,000 MT per day.
Tata Steel, on Monday, stated that it has elevated its day by day oxygen provide restrict to 600 MT per day. Among different main gamers, whereas JSW Steel Limited has decreased its output to provide 1,000 tonne of medical grade oxygen per day, a senior official with Jindal Steel and Power Limited stated that the corporate is producing 100 tonne of medical grade oxygen per day. Steel Authority of India Limited is supplying a median of round 650 tonnes of liquid medical oxygen per day over the previous couple of days. ArcelorMittal Nippon Steel India is supplying 220 MT of liquid oxygen per day to Gujarat.
While ITC is airlifting 24 Cryogenic ISO Containers, with 20 tonne capability every, Adani Group is importing 4 ISO cryogenic tanks with 80 MT liquid oxygen from Saudi Arabia. On Tuesday, Amazon stated that it will ship 100 ICU ventilator items to India from the US. It had earlier labored with companions to airlift greater than 8,000 oxygen concentrators and 500 ventilators from Singapore.