As part of the cooperation between TÜBİTAK Marmara Research Center (MAM) and MFA Mask and Work Safety Medicals Inc.; TÜBİTAK MAM President Prof. Ahmet Yozgatlıgil and MFA General Manager Fatih Furtun signed the License Contract of the Project on the "Development of Oxygen Self-Rescuers" on 23 November 2021.
TÜBİTAK MAM and MFA also exchanged views on the project opening meeting and other potential cooperation areas.
The signing ceremony was attended by TÜBİTAK MAM President Prof. Ahmet Yozgatlıgil, MFA General Manager Fatih Furtun, MFA Production Manager Zeynep Çakır Soylu, MFA Medical Company Business Development Engineer Cansın Piyan, Chemist Soner Ataman, MFA Respiratory Protective Equipment General Coordinator Murat Uzun, TÜBİTAK MAM Vice President Dr. Osman Okur, Institute of Chemical Technology (KTE) Deputy Director Assoc. Prof. Şerife Sarıoğlan, KTE Coordinator Dr. Elif Ünveren, Senior Research Specialist Dr. Caner Yürüdü, Research Specialist Dr. Nesrin Karademir, TÜBİTAK MAM Technology and Business Development Coordinator Dr. Ebru Kızılay Altınel and Expert Namık Serkan Taşkıran.
The Project for the "Development of Oxygen Self-Rescuers" aims to develop ergonomic, portable and modern self-rescuers to provide users with sufficient breathing air during emergency escape in cases where toxic gases are present in the ambient air and/or the amount of oxygen is not sufficient.
Collaborating with the industry leader MFA Mask for domestic and national production of these products forms the basis of this project to meet Turkey's need in this field.
TÜBİTAK MAM working on air freshening and life support systems since 2012 feels duty bound to carry out R&D studies for the production of emergency escape masks and oxygen self-rescuers with domestic resources after the Soma coal mine disaster in Turkey.
R&D studies for the production of oxygen-generating chemicals, which have been initiated with this motivation, have yielded success. Now, it is time to initiate studies for developing oxygen self-rescuers with a sector-leading company producing completely national products, MFA.
