Best of 2025: How Mil’s approaches medical oxygen (May 2025)

  • Gas
  • January 9, 2026

One thing we all learned during the height of the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020 and 2021 is that oxygen is required in volume by every major hospital in the world.

It’s a market that is often best served by making high-grade oxygen on site, given the consistency and predictability of the need. And one of the most efficient ways to do that is by deploying vacuum pressure swing adsorption (VPSA) technology to extract oxygen from the air to be put into service very quickly. As a technology, it’s much more energy-efficient than the standard PSA process that is also used.

In France, one company that has moved on this opportunity in a big way in the past 15 years is the family-owned Mil’s, headquartered near Lyon in southern France. And it has made such progress that it is now a crucial player on the global stage when it comes to on-site medical oxygen.

Managing Director Christian Pic notes that the single fastest growth area for the export-led company is VPSA oxygen generators, and there is no sign of that growth slowing.

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