Messer Americas has increased its carbon dioxide (CO2) supply capabilities for industrial gas customers in the South, Southeast and Midwest regions of Brazil to meet growing demands.
More than $200,000 in concentrated oxygen and personal oxygen concentrator devices have been sent to the Amazon regions of Brazil and Peru to help the fight against Covid-19.
Two weeks since Manaus hit the headlines for its tragic scenes of Covid casualties and dire oxygen shortages, gasworld understands the situation remains grave in the Brazilian city.
Widespread media reports suggest that hospitals in the Brazilian city of Manaus have reached ‘breaking point’ in their treatment of growing numbers of Covid-19 patients, as oxygen shortages take hold in the region.
Bayer has launched a new carbon initiative that will reward farmers in Brazil and the US for implementing carbon capture and sequestration technologies in order to help agriculture reduce its carbon footprint and greenhouse gas...
Messer Brazil has supplied high-quality medical gases to a hospital in Belo Horizonte treating Covid-19 patients.
Technology from medical device manufacturer Bedfont Scientific is being used in a novel study to see if nitric oxide (FeNO) levels are affected by Covid-19.
Brazilian industrial gas company Indústria Brasileira de Gases (IBG) has started up a new production unit in order to meet increased demand for oxygen as a result of the coronavirus pandemic.
Messer Americas has said it is continuing to provide medical gases to local hospitals in Brazil to help support coronavirus efforts.
Football stadiums in Brazil have been transformed into field hospitals and clinics in the fight against coronavirus – and Air Liquide is providing essential medical equipment to them.
