01·Heritage
A century-plus institution, half a century at the pressure frontier.
For over a century, Uttam has been a multinational leader in energy and healthcare, serving customers and missions that have no tolerance for failure.
Family legacy from 1900 · Uttam Air Products, 1972
The Bhatia family’s legacy reaches back to 1900. The modern gas-engineering era opened in 1972, with the incorporation of Uttam Air Products, high-pressure containment, cylinders and complete gas systems.
That combination is the whole point: a century-plus of operation behind it, and a half-century of engineering leadership in the specific, unforgiving discipline of high-pressure gas. In 2008, Karan and Aanchal Bhatia incorporated Uttam Cylinders, the group’s flagship manufacturing entity. The group’s COVID-19 oxygen response and the Ashvath refuelling unit pointed the institution squarely at the clean-energy era.
The Uttam coat of arms
02·The founder
Dr. Panna Lal Bhatia
Founder · Uttam Air Products, 1972
The youngest of four brothers, Dr. Panna Lal Bhatia built the foundation that Uttam still stands on.
He founded Uttam Air Products in 1972, soon after returning from Germany with a Doctorate in Mechanical Engineering from the Technische Universität Dresden. It was the move that turned a century-old trading house into a gas-engineering institution.
The groundwork came earlier: in 1965 the family formed Roop Chand Uttam Chand Industries to manufacture oil-hydraulic systems, the group’s first step into precision engineering, before diversifying into industrial and medical gases.
In 1975 he founded the All India Industrial Gases Manufacturers Association (AIIGMA), the industry’s national body for gases, cylinders, equipment and safety, the same association Karan Bhatia would later be twice elected to lead. Today AIIGMA counts 310 members, representing companies and organisations from every state in India. A philanthropist and industry statesman, his leadership shaped not only Uttam but the Indian gas industry as a whole.
03·The timeline
1900 to today
From the founding year, through the modern gas-engineering era, to the clean-energy firsts that define Uttam now. Pick any year, or let it play.
1900
Origins
The Uttam Group is founded
Roop Chand Uttam Chand is formed in D. I. Khan (now Pakistan), trading in tea, dried fruits, spices and textiles across Afghanistan and Iran.
04·Our businesses
One group, many engineering fronts.
The Uttam Group operates as a family of specialised entities, from industrial and medical gases to composite cylinders, clean-energy systems and consumer brands.
Uttam Air Products
Industrial & medical gases
Incorporated 1972 · the group's foundation
Uttam Cylinders (UCPL)
Aluminium-alloy & composite cylinders, bulk gas-transport systems
Incorporated 2008 · flagship manufacturing
Uttam Clean Energy
CNG & hydrogen storage, transport and refueling systems
Uttam Super Brands
Retail division, consumer breathing & fire-safety products
Brands: OxyGo · DouzeIt
Uttam Medical & Safety
Medical-gas and safety equipment
Orbit Gases
Industrial gas supply
Consumer brands · Uttam Super Brands
OxyGo
Portable oxygen
Portable and personal oxygen cylinders, 'breathing on the go', developed from the group's medical-gas expertise.
DouzeIt
Fire safety
Lightweight aluminium CO₂ fire extinguishers, engineered for the same reliability as the group's high-pressure cylinders.
05·Our values
Five Cs, carried across every endeavour.
01
Courage
To take on what the country cannot run without.
02
Competence
Engineering that institutions stake lives on.
03
Communication
Clarity with clients, partners and regulators.
04
Compatibility
Systems that fit the field, not the brochure.
05
Commitment
A century in, and pointed forward.
06·Footprint
Engineering across India and the United States.
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India
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United States
A partnership in pressure
Build with an institution, not an experiment.