Covid-19: Railways' Integral Coach Factory eyes tie-up to make ventilators

It will offer its component-making and assembling capacity to ramp up manufacturing of ventilators, which are critical in the battle against Covid-19

The Integral Coach Factory (ICF) is looking for a collaboration to manufacture ventilators at its facility in Chennai. Southern Railway has already started making hand sanitizers, masks, and aprons amid Coronavirus pandemic.

ICF, a production unit under the Ministry of Railways, has invited for expression of interest (EOI) and said it is exploring the possibility of collaborating with established ventilator manufacturers. It will offer its component-making and assembling capacity to ramp up manufacturing of ventilators, in order to increase the availability of these devices which are critical in the battle against Covid-19.

ICF manufactures mainline and self-propelled coaches for Indian Railways. The