Medical oxygen production has been started near St. Petersburg

08.12.2020
PJSC Cryogenmash (member of OMZ Group) Subsidiary - Cryogenmash-Gaz LLC started the medical oxygen supplies from industrial site in Kolpino (St. Petersburg). The company received a license from the Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation for the production of medicines, and passed the procedure of making a record, concerning the inclusion of pharmaceutical substance (liquid medical oxygen) in the State Register of Medicines. The first batches of the product – more than 20 tons - have already been received by the St. Petersburg State Budgetary Institution of health "Hospital for veterans of wars". In total, the company may produce up to 3,000 tons of medical oxygen per month at this site.

The site near St. Petersburg became the second one in the PJSC OMZ structure, which produces medical oxygen. Since 2012, the company has been supplying this product from its company in Polevskoy (Sverdlovsk Region). At the moment, supplies from this site are provided directly to 8 regions of Ural and the Volga region. Three more companies – in Tula, Taganrog and Tomsk - have already received a license from the Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation for the production of medical oxygen and are passing the product registration procedure in the Ministry of Health. These companies may start the supplies immediately when the registration is completed.

“The increased demand for medical oxygen in the regions is remained. We are ready to help health workers at struggle with coronavirus disease not only at the Ural and the Northwest, but also in the Central Region, in the South and in Siberia, as soon as the Ministry of Health completes the product registration at all our sites. In total, five of our plants may supply up to 9,000 tons of medical oxygen per month. Our own gas transportation means allow us meeting the requirements of medical centers and companies in several nearby regions from each site, as it is working now in the Sverdlovsk Region,”- said Yevgenii Kislitsyn, General Director of PJSC OMZ.
Medical oxygen and industrial gases are produced at the facilities of Cryogenmash (member of Group).

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