From selling capsules
to building chambers
Fifteen years in hyperbaric oxygen, 3,100+ chambers in 50+ countries. We started by selling someone else’s capsule and built the chamber our customers kept asking for.
OxyHelp is a European hyperbaric chamber manufacturer. It began in 2011, when Valentin Ancuța distributed Japanese oxygen capsules across Europe, and was founded in 2014 with Marius Săndulescu to build its own OxyLife monoplace chambers, followed in 2017 by modular multiplace chambers. Engineering, manufacturing, controls and software are all in-house, and its chambers are used in more than 50 countries.
- 2011
It started with a capsule
Valentin Ancuța began by distributing Japanese oxygen capsules across Europe: 75 cm wide and capped at 1.3 ATA. Three years of selling, installing and servicing them made one thing clear. Customers wanted more room and more pressure, and nobody was building that chamber.
- 2014
OxyHelp is founded
Valentin Ancuța and Marius Săndulescu founded OxyHelp to build that chamber from scratch, engineered rather than adapted. Six months later the first monoplace models launched, the OxyLife I80 and I90, wider and at higher pressure than the capsule they replaced.
- Early years
Made in our own factory
The first chambers came out of a small workshop, with vessels welded by suppliers. Within three years engineering and manufacturing moved in-house. Today the pressure vessel, the controls, the software and the assembly are all ours, built in our European factory to a standard we can put our name on.
- 2017
Multiplace, one module at a time
In 2017 came the first multiplace chamber, built on a modular core: the same base, extended one module at a time. A two-seat chamber became four, and the range grew into the C1 to C5 models used today in clinics, gyms and wellness centres.
- In the field
Air that keeps up with athletes
Real installations taught us what no design table did: athletes stepping in straight after training breathe out far more CO2 than anyone assumed. So we more than doubled the airflow and spent years making it quiet. Much of the engineering you never see in an OxyHelp chamber is there to keep the air fresh.
- Today
3,100+ chambers in 50+ countries
OxyHelp chambers run in clinics, recovery centres, sports facilities, hotels and private homes, with over five million hours of use behind them. Our newest work is software: session control and remote support, so a chamber anywhere in the world can be looked after from Romania.