Alpha Design gets tech from Isro for its oxygen concentrators

Indian defence firm had earlier won a Nasa contract for ventilators

With the central government encouraging the defence industrial ecosystem to design and manufacture equipment for the fight against the Covid-19 pandemic, the Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro) has transferred technology to Bengaluru-based private defence firm Alpha Design Technologies (ADTL) for manufacturing portable, high-efficiency oxygen concentrators for Covid patient facilities.

The technology for oxygen concentrators was developed by the Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre (VSSC).

Thanking VSSC and Isro, ADTL Chairman and Managing Director Colonel (Retd) H S Shankar stated that “ADTL was taking immediate action to produce oxygen concentrators in large numbers in a short period of time, so that these were available