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June 2025
 

Minister of Industry, Investment and Commerce, Senator the Hon. Aubyn Hill (centre), in discussion with IGL Limited Managing Director, Peter Graham (left), during Wednesday’s (March 16) commissioning ceremony for the firm’s pressure swing absorption (PSA) plant at Ferry, St. Catherine, which was developed at a cost of nearly $100 million. Listening (from second left) are Minister of Science, Energy and Technology, Hon. Daryl Vaz; Leader of Opposition Business in the House of Representatives, Anthony Hylton; and Opposition Spokesman on Health, Dr. Morais Guy.

Jamaica’s Capacity To Produce Medical-Grade Oxygen Gets Big Boost

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 21 Mar 2022    user   
Jamaica’s ability to produce medical-grade oxygen has been further bolstered with the commissioning of IGL Limited’s pressure swing absorption (PSA) plant at Ferry, St. Catherine. The plant was developed at a cost of nearly $100 million. The facility was formally commissioned into service by Minister of Industry, Investment and Commerce, Senator the Hon. Aubyn Hill, who represented Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Andrew Holness, during a ceremony on Wednesday (March 16). The plant’s development will boost IGL’s production capacity for oxygen by more than 40 per cent. Its introduction will...


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Coordinator of the National Quality Awards Programme and Senior Standards Development Officer at the Bureau of Standards Jamaica (BSJ), Elaine Edwards.

March 31 Deadline For Quality Awards Programme Applications

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 21 Mar 2022    user   
The programme, titled National Quality Awards, is being implemented by the Bureau of Standards Jamaica (BSJ). It will recognise and reward companies that have demonstrated application of standards and quality in their operations. The BSJ will then schedule and conduct the assessment, after which a detailed report of the findings will be generated by the assessors. Runner-up participants will receive a detailed copy of their reports, which will help to identify gaps in their system and will offer recommendations to ensure that they are operating at utmost efficiency. They will also receive...


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Update: JBDC creates incubator for essential oil producers

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 18 Mar 2022    user   
Jamaica Business Development Corporation , JBDC, will in April start taking applications for its essential oil incubator, through which it plans to churn out entrepreneurs to take market share away from importers. JBDC is eyeing at least a quarter of the US$40 million in annual essential oil imports flowing into Jamaica, Deputy CEO Harold Davis says. The agency expects to hit the US$1-million target by year four of the programme, and level up thereafter, as start-ups and graduates of the incubator programme move to set up their own operations. JBDC itself will sell essential oils through its...


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The JIPO office is located in the Jampro building in New Kingston, St Andrew.

New changes to Jamaica's intellectual property landscape

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 18 Mar 2022    user   
RECENTLY, there have been major developments in Jamaica's intellectual property (IP) landscape. These changes include the bringing into effect of the much-anticipated Patents and Design Act, 2020 and the Trade Marks (Amendment) Act, 2021. The Patents and Design Act came into effect on February 11, 2022. Some of the main effects of this Act include that the ancient Patents Act, 1857 and the Designs Act, 1937 were repealed and the Jamaica Intellectual Property Office (JIPO) will now exercise the powers that were previously given to the attorney general under the Patents Act, 1857...


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Minister of Industry, Investment and Commerce Aubyn Hill (right) and Opposition Spokesperson Anthony Hylton officially commission Industrial Gases Limited’s oxygen PSA plant at the company’s Ferry, St Catherine, plant on Wednesday.

IGL pumps up oxygen supplies

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 18 Mar 2022    user   
Production of medical grade oxygen at Industrial Gases Limited (IGL) will be increased by 40 per cent with the commissioning of an oxygen PSA plant. IGL, Jamaica’s lone supplier of medical oxygen, currently produces 13 tonnes of the product daily. That investment, valued at approximately $100 million according to Managing Director Peter Graham, is welcome news for Jamaica’s healthcare sector whose severely and critically ill coronavirus patients gasped for oxygen amid last summer’s third wave, the deadliest period of the two-year pandemic. Graham explained that prior to 2018, Jamaica had full...


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