Indian in UAE to produce O2 cylinders instead of CNG to aid patients back home
Wed, May 05 2021 04:06:45 PM
Dubai, May 5 (IANS): An Indian expat at a UAE-based free zone firm has set aside producing Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) cylinders and shifted to manufacturing oxygen containers for India to help out the Covid patients in the country.
Speaking to Gulf News, Pushkar Khurana, Managing Director of the company EKC International FZE, said, We are an Indian subsidiary and as soon as we came to know about the oxygen cylinder shortage in India, we had to rise to the call of our nation and serve the needs of our country.
Ban on oxygen supply to industries stops production of much-required oxygen cylinders
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Two of the largest manufacturers of oxygen cylinders, Everest Kanto Cylinder and Rama Cylinders have stopped production for the past two days due to a shortage of oxygen as supplies meant for industries have been diverted for medical usage, said people in the know. The companies need about two tonnes of oxygen a day each as part of the heat treatment process for manufacturing seamless cylinders.
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Blanket orders to stop the supply of oxygen to industries is unwittingly hampering the oxygen logistics in the country as it has impacted the production of cylinders used to store and ferry the life-saving gas.
Dubai: Responding to the need of the hour, an Indian expat at a UAE-based free zone company has set aside producing Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) cylinders and shifted to manufacturing oxygen containers for India to help COVID-19 patients in the country.
Speaking to
Gulf News, Pushkar Khurana, managing director of the company EKC International FZE, said, “We are an Indian subsidiary and as soon as we came to know about the oxygen cylinder shortage in India, we had to rise to the call of our nation and serve the needs of our country.”
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Khurana said that since March, they have been exporting these cylinders in multiple containers to Port Mundra in Gujarat on the western coast of India. “We make the cylinders which are then filled with medical oxygen by Gulf-based industrial gas companies such as Emirates Industrial Gases Company (EIGC) and Gulf Cryo, and these are shipped to Port Mundra. Each container that is shipped contains about 350 cylinders of 50 litre ca