IIT Jodhpur develops innovative face shield and sterilisation system for N95 masks

In the unprecedented COVID-19 crisis, CII has significantly contributed in building collaborations wherever possible between companies and academic institutions. In partnership with ACMA, 2 SIAM, IMTMA and SIDM, CII formed a network of companies for augmenting the inventory of ventilators through manufacturing by utilising their resources such as plant and machinery and highly skilled manpower to mass-manufacture ventilators or through import.

 

Parallely, with the support of the PSA’s office, a consortium of innovative COVID-19 technologies, offered by industry and start-ups incubated by national research laboratories, government agencies and academic institutions, was also formed to make technologies available for industry partnerships. In its efforts towards developing technologies against COVID-19, IIT Jodhpur has developed an innovative face shield, which is now available in the market as a commercial product of M/s Iscon-Surgicals Ltd, Jodhpur, and a few thousand units have been manufactured and already sold. Besides this, the Institute has also developed an advanced photo-catalytic oxidation sterilization system based on UV-light and metal oxide nanoparticles catalyst to treat N95 filtering facemask respirators for reuse.

 

The technology - the knowhow of the sterilisation system - has been transferred to seven firms namely M/s Iscon-Surgicals Pvt Ltd, Jodhpur, Rajasthan; M/s Kamtech Associates Pvt Ltd, Jaipur, Rajasthan; M/s Chempharm Industries India Pvt Ltd, Sonipat, Haryana; M/s. Parappadi Technologies (P) LTD, Trivandrum, Kerala; M/s Johri Digital Healthcare Ltd, Jodhpur; Mai Bharat Society, Jaipur; and M/s Zintex Blue Ocean Pvt Ltd, Jaipur in May 2020. These firms are in the process of the development of these products.