Development of Oxygen Personal Rescuer Project Signed with TÜBİTAK MAM

23 Nov 2021

Development of Oxygen Personal Rescuer Project Signed with TÜBİTAK MAM

Within the scope of the cooperation between TÜBİTAK Marmara Research Center (MAM) and MFA Maske İş Güvenliği Medikal A.Ş., the License Agreement for the "Development of Oxygenated Personal Rescuer" Project was signed by TÜBİTAK MAM Vice President Prof. Dr. Ahmet Yozgatlıgil and MFA General Manager Fatih Furtun on November 23, 2021.

During the project launch meeting, discussions were also held on other potential areas of cooperation between MFA MASKE and TÜBİTAK MAM.

The signing ceremony was attended by TÜBİTAK MAM President V. Prof. Dr. Ahmet Yozgatlıgil, MFA General Manager Fatih Furtun, MFA General Coordinator Murat Uzun, MFA Production Manager Zeynep Çakır Soylu, MFA Business Development Engineer Cansın Piyan, MFA Test Center Supervisor Soner Ataman, TÜBİTAK MAM Vice President Dr. Osman Okur, Vice President of TÜBİTAK MAM, Chemical Technology Institute Dr. Osman Okur, Vice President of TÜBİTAK MAM Dr. Osman Okur, Chemical Technology Institute (CTE) Deputy Director V. Assoc. Prof. Dr. Şerife Sarıoğlan, CTE Coordinator Dr. Elif Ünveren, Lead Researcher Dr. Caner Yürüdü, Expert Researcher Dr. Nesrin Karademir, TÜBİTAK MAM Technology and Business Development Directorate Coordinator Dr. Ebru Kızılay Altınel and Expert Namık Serkan Taşkıran.

The "Development of Oxygenated Personal Rescuers" project aims to develop ergonomic, portable and modern personal rescuers to provide sufficient breathing air to the user during emergency escape in cases where there are toxic gases in the ambient air and/or the amount of oxygen is not sufficient.

The basis of this project is to cooperate with the sector leader MFA Maske for the domestic and national production of these products and to close Turkey's need gap in this direction.

Since 2012, TÜBİTAK MAM, which has been working on air freshening and life support systems, has taken it upon itself to carry out the necessary R&D studies for the domestic production of emergency escape masks and oxygen personal rescuers after the Soma disaster in our country.

Initiated with this motivation, R&D studies for the production of oxygen-generating chemicals were successfully concluded. Subsequently, the development of oxygen personal rescuers is being initiated in cooperation with MFA, a pioneer in its sector, which produces completely domestic products.