The California Office of Emergency Services (Cal OES) has said that surging Covid-19 cases and hospitalisations have resulted in oxygen supply issues which are affecting hospitals in the state.
Nigeria’s President has approved N6.45bn ($16.9m) plans to set up 38 oxygen plants in sites nationwide to help treat Covid-19 patients as oxygen usage surges in the country amid a second wave of Covid-19 infections.
Linde will build one of the largest air separation units (ASUs) in Hungary to meet the increasing demand for industrial gases.
FIBA Technologies, Inc. has stepped up production of its vaporisers to meet demands from hospitals across the US and beyond.
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.
Afrox and Air Liquide have issued separate notices of force majeure to their industrial customers in South Africa as medical grade oxygen usage surges in the country amid a second wave of Covid-19 infections.
SYOXSA, Inc. is overcoming challenges to supply hospitals with life-saving oxygen needed to treat coronavirus (Covid-19) patients in the El Paso area of Texas, US.
The European Industrial Gases Association (EIGA) has launched a new free eLearning package on oxygen safety in a bid to increase awareness of the special safety requirements for oxygen and improve safety.
NASA hopes to perform the final test in the Green Run testing series for the core stage of its Space Launch System (SLS) rocket this weekend.
The British Compressed Gases Association (BCGA) has confirmed to gasworld that oxygen capacity in the UK “has been, and remains in place, to ramp up production levels significantly”.
