As India grapples with an unprecedented new wave of the Covid Pandemic, Reliance Industries has scaled up production of medical grade liquid oxygen, becoming country’s largest producer of this life-saving resource from a single location in just over a year’s time.
Traditionally, Reliance is not a manufacturer of medical grade liquid oxygen. Yet, starting from Nil before the pandemic, the company is its largest producer in the country from a single location. At its refinery-cum-petrochemical complex in Jamnagar and other facilities, RIL now produces over 1000 MT per day - or 11 per cent of India’s total production - meeting the needs of nearly every one in ten patients.
A company statement said that under personal supervision of Mukesh Ambani, Chairman and Managing Director, at Jamnagar, Reliance has adopted a two-pronged approach to strengthen the availability of medical oxygen in India: the company is refocusing several industrial processes at Reliance’s Jamnagar and other facilities for rapid scale-up in production of medical grade liquid oxygen.