AIRTEC ships aid to India to fight Covid-19 pandemic

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KUWAIT CITY, May 8: During the challenging times that the world has been experiencing following the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic in late December 2019, the Refrigeration and Oxygen Company Ltd (AIRTEC Group) has been very instrumental in helping India to cope with the pandemic when the country faced shortage in various items especially oxygen. 

The AIRTEC Group stepped in to ship to India 100 MT medical grade LOX through Kuwait government. AIRTEC also filled 1,600 cylinders with medical oxygen. The AIRTEC Group said, “It is our endeavor to stand by India in times of need.”   

The complete shipment has been done in coordination with the Indian Embassy in Kuwait and the government of Kuwait, to help India fight the pandemic  

The chairman of the company Mr. Alhareth AbdulRazzaq Alkhaled said all the liquid oxygen and the oxygen gas filled in the cylinders has been supplied free of charge by the company.   

He thanked his company employees for a job well done. He also thanked the government of Kuwait and the Indian Embassy in Kuwait for providing all the necessary support. 

The Ambassador of India to Kuwait HE Sibi George visited the plant location and met with the company chairman, it’s COO, Mr. Peeyush Jain and it’s Technical director Mr. Ahmed Elalfi. He thanked the AIRTEC Group for all the efforts and the extraordinary support that the company has provided during this crisis in India.  

The company also thanks AlRashed International Shipping Co. for their 24/7 logistical support and services provided.  

The AIRTEC Group works together to bring to you total gas solutions year-on-year growth from its inception in 1960 as Refrigeration and Oxygen Co. Ltd; Kuwait, until date has been leaders in the field of gas and gas-related products and services. The company started with a dream, grew with belief and stood to fulfill its promises. 

The company has since then expanded it’s operations in the United Arab Emirates with Emirates Industrial Gases Co. LLC., established in 1978 in UAE; in Qatar with Qatar Oxygen Company, established in 2005 and in Bahrain in 2011 when the AIRTEC Group acquired a 100% stake in Bahrain Medical & Industrial Gas Plants, established in 1965. The company further established its presence in Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in 2015 as Watan Industrial Gas company.

The Group companies are now the largest manufacturers and suppliers of medical, industrial, specialty gases and mixture gases in the Middle East. 

And to help the company provide its customers with services that go beyond global standards in safety, reliability and customer satisfaction, the ROC Group has entered into a joint venture in 2009 with Praxair, Inc., based in the United States — one of the largest industrial gases companies worldwide. PRAXAIR merged with Linde group and is called now Linde Plc., the largest industrial gas manufacturer in the world.

To streamline the company’s business and provide an enhanced range of products and services, the group of companies has been rebranded as AIRTEC.  

AIRTEC represents the combined know-how and reputation of ROC Group & Linde Plc., and is aimed at further strengthening its market leading position as the largest total gas solutions provider in the region. 

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