Covid-19: JSW Steel reduces production to ramp up supply of medical oxygen

Saving lives more important than producing steel, says Sajjan Jindal

Steel companies are looking at different ways to mitigate the oxygen crisis. From setting up Covid hospitals and centres close to their plants to overcome transportation bottlenecks for liquid oxygen, they are also ramping up output of oxygen even at the cost of cutting down on steel production. Primary steel producers are looking at solutions that can be achieved in the shortest possible time.
 
Sajjan Jindal-controlled JSW Steel has ramped up liquid oxygen supply further to 1,000 tonnes a day and total liquid medical oxygen (LMO) supplies during April 2021 are expected to be over 20,000 tonnes.
 
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