Bluegas is planning to set up a high purity oxygen plant in Fiji.

Managing Director, Ajai Punja says the new facility to be located in Vuda will be built under Bluegas’s Industrial and Medical Gases Division.

The investment will be substantial and will create approximately 15-20 new jobs.

“Currently all the oxygen’s are all imported and we will have a plant that will be able to supply Fiji and be able to supply to other Pacific Islands because they all import from Australia and New Zealand.”

Bluegas had initially planned this facility for 2023, however, now will accelerate the project in the wake of the growing demand for medical and industrial grade oxygen.

The plant is to be certified by the National Association of Testing Authorities Australia.