CHENNAI: Sterlite Copper, part of metals major Vedanta Group, has commissioned a bottling plant to fill gaseous oxygen in cylinders at its copper smelter in Tuticorin.
The plant, set up at a cost of Rs 11 crore, has a capacity to fill 400 cylinders per day.
Sterlite has been producing liquid medical oxygen (LMO) for the last couple of weeks after the Tamil Nadu government gave all its approvals to reopen its plant to produce medical oxygen to shore up supplies to hospitals in the state.
The company has now sourced technology from overseas and established the bottling plant to capture gaseous oxygen, which was otherwise being vented out into the air.
The company’s employees and other technicians had worked hard to set up and made the plant operational within a day of receiving the materials, a statement from Sterlite Copper said.