02·Impact
Cleaner fuel for a nation, and oxygen when it counted most.
Uttam's impact runs on two fronts: moving India's transport and industry onto cleaner CNG and hydrogen, and keeping the country supplied with medical oxygen in its hardest hours.
Decarbonisation & clean fuel
Engineering the switch off oil.
Uttam’s virtual gas pipelines and onboard fuel systems are moving India’s transport and industry off diesel and petrol and onto cleaner CNG and hydrogen, cutting carbon and the soot and NOₓ that choke city air.
Where a gas pipeline cannot reach, our virtual pipeline does: a fleet of high-pressure cascades that carries gaseous CNG by road and keeps industry and city-gas networks running on the cleaner fuel.
CO₂ avoided for India · per year
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Like taking 200,000+ petrol cars off India’s roads every year — or offsetting the annual carbon footprint of roughly 450,000 Indians.
At India’s ~2.13 t CO₂ per person, per year
virtual gas pipelines, CNG instead of diesel
~1,200 buses & trucks on CNG and hydrogen
Illustrative estimate · CNG vs diesel, stated assumptions
- 800+
- Virtual gas-pipeline systems deployed, each carrying 9,800 litres of gaseous CNG to where pipelines do not reach.
- ~1,200
- Buses and trucks running on Uttam CNG and hydrogen onboard fuel storage instead of diesel, clean fuel on the road every day.
- ~25% less
- CO₂ per kilometre on CNG versus diesel, with a fraction of the particulate pollution, multiplied across every vehicle and route we fuel.
The everyday backbone
Most of the time, medical oxygen is invisible. It is the cylinder by the hospital bed, the tank on the ambulance, the line that never makes the news, until it does.
For decades, Uttam has manufactured the medical-oxygen cylinders that move through that system: lightweight, certified, built to be relied on without a second thought. It is unglamorous work, and it is precisely the kind of work an institution earns trust doing.
That trust is built in the ordinary years. It is spent in the extraordinary ones.
The COVID-19 chapter
In 2020 and 2021, demand did not rise. It multiplied.
When the second wave hit, oxygen consumption grew many times over in a matter of weeks. The constraint was no longer manufacturing alone, it was logistics: getting medical oxygen, cylinders and generation capacity to where patients were, fast enough to matter.
- 5M+
- People given medical oxygen across Uttam’s COVID-19 response in India.
- 140+
- Oxygen plants installed across the country, including 35 oxygen generation plants for the Indian Army.
- 13,000 m³/day
- PSA oxygen capacity built for Delhi government hospitals, 22 plants, commissioned in six weeks.
Uttam’s contribution spanned the full chain: cylinders to hold and move the gas, capacity to keep them filled, and on-site Pressure-Swing-Adsorption (PSA) plants so that hospitals could generate oxygen where supply could not be trusted to arrive.
For the Delhi government, Uttam installed 22 PSA plants, 13,000 m³ per day of on-demand oxygen drawn from atmospheric air, commissioned in six weeks and inaugurated by the Delhi Chief Minister. For the Government of France, it delivered eight plants in just six days, at hospitals including Apollo, B.L. Kapoor Memorial and Sanjay Gandhi Memorial. In Meghalaya, three plants were set up with the UNDP and the Government of Japan, at the civil hospitals in Tura, Nongpoh and Jowai.
The work reached the hardest places, too: a specially designed generator for the DRDO, operating at over 16,000 feet of altitude.
Who Uttam worked with
One supply chain. A coalition behind it.
At the height of the crisis, Uttam coordinated armed forces, national governments, a UN agency and global industry through a single supply chain, under emergency conditions, against the clock.
The names below sat on the same calls, the same manifests and the same delivery deadlines, because oxygen could not wait for paperwork.
- Armed forces & research
- Indian ArmyDRDO
- Governments
- FranceJapanDelhiRajasthanUttarakhand
- Multilateral
- UNDP
- Industry partners
- CapgeminiSaint-GobainHCL
Proven where it matters most
From the Moon to the world’s highest battlefield.
Siachen
Oxygen cylinders supplied for the Indian Army at Siachen Glacier, the world's highest battlefield.
Chandrayaan
Cylinders supplied to ISRO for India's Chandrayaan mission to the Moon.
Sikkim
India's highest-altitude oxygen plant, installed in Sikkim.
Firefighters
Life-support cylinders trusted by India's leading firefighting services.
35 plants
On-site oxygen generation plants installed for the Indian Army.
250,000+
High-pressure cylinders in circulation across India and beyond.
03·On-site generation
Oxygen, generated where it is needed.
PSA plants pull medical-grade oxygen from the air on site, removing the dependence on a fragile delivery chain. Installed and maintained for hospitals, they turn a logistics problem into an engineering one.
It is the same instinct that runs through everything Uttam builds: when something cannot be allowed to fail, engineer out the points where it could.
Reliability, by design
Talk to the people who keep oxygen flowing when it matters most.