Car companies from the use of overseas supply chain procurement of anti-epidemic materials to support the domestic anti-epidemic, and now donate materials to overseas, in the protection of overseas employees against the epidemic at the same time, but also for the global anti-epidemic efforts.
The first auto channel reporter learned from Zhejiang Geely Holding Group that Geely Holding, together with Li Shufu Public Welfare Foundation, donated the first batch of medical supplies worth 2 million yuan to Germany, Sweden, Britain and other European countries, including disposable medical surgical masks, disposable medical gloves, medical suits/isolation suits, goggles and other emergency medical supplies, which were used to support the new Crown pneumonia outbreak. The epidemic prevention and control work in the serious areas. Geely Holdings internal sources told reporters that the first batch of donations to the Swedish Department of Health and Germany Launheim City Hall materials have been mailed through the DHL logistics, Geely sea will be based on the needs of the epidemic in due course to further expand the number of donated medical supplies.
As a globalized enterprise, Geely Holding Group has nearly 50,000 overseas employees around the world. In the face of the epidemic, Geely Holding Group actively communicated with local companies to understand the development of the epidemic and helped guide the arrangements for epidemic prevention and control work. At the same time, Geely is actively coordinating domestic resources in order to expeditiously deploy standardized medical supplies to local governments and Geely's overseas employees in many European countries.
Now, Geely Holding's motorcycle brand Benelli has also allocated 10,000 masks to Italy and Austria from the existing anti-epidemic materials in its Chinese factories to protect the daily anti-epidemic needs of Benelli's European headquarters. Geely sources told reporters that the next step Geely will also be donated to the Philippines, Malaysia and other countries.
From overseas procurement to "self-made" feedback, to a large extent, from the car company's huge industrial chain base and intelligent manufacturing to bring flexible production capacity and flexibility.
In order to fight the new coronavirus, SAIC-GM-Wuling, Changan Automobile and BYD previously launched production lines to produce their own masks and masking machines, which not only successfully met the needs of the upstream and downstream industrial chain and partners, but also expected to contribute to the global fight against the epidemic. "After meeting the domestic anti-epidemic demand, there are plans to export (masks) abroad to help fight the epidemic together." BYD told Channel One Automotive.
Changan Automobile also said that while overcoming its own difficulties, it will also take the "Changan brand" masks step by step to the world to support its partners and countries to fight the epidemic. SAIC-GM-Wuling also said that at present, the masks of SAIC-GM-Wuling are more to meet the needs of the upstream and downstream of the domestic industrial chain, Wuling has its own factory in Indonesia, and the subsequent domestic production capacity of masks may also be used to support the needs of employees of the Indonesian factory. At present, SAIC-GM-Wuling has built 22 automated mask production lines, with an average daily production capacity of 2 million.
"We have recently been couriering masks out of the country on a daily basis to support our employees and customers in fighting the epidemic." Reporters from the SAIC Group's Yanfeng Automotive Interior Systems Co. insiders told reporters. Because of its previous business in automotive seat covers, Yanfeng was able to find a supplier of meltblown fabric necessary for manufacturing the masks in a short period of time, and realize the mass production of the masks off the production line in just 2 weeks. "The daily production capacity has now reached 40,000, with one side supplied to overseas employees and customers, and the rest uniformly deployed by SAIC." The above people told reporters, for automobile and parts suppliers, the mask of mass production process and production line is not difficult to build, the supply is very tight, every day to find ways to go around to "grab" this raw material.
In addition to the manufacture of masks, the epidemic has also made the end-consumer for the car's interior air quality and hygiene and other indicators of great concern. To this end, Yanfeng also launched the industry's first car-grade deep ultraviolet sterilization box in February.
Recently, SAIC Rongwei launched its first model Rongwei Ei5 equipped with active purification health cabin, which integrates the UVC portable sterilization lamp and UVC deep ultraviolet optical disinfection system built by Yanfeng, as well as 360 ° fumigation and sterilization services, car fresh air system, and so on. The above Yanfeng's insider told reporters, "This sterilization box also has some overseas channel operators contacting us, hoping that this product can provide more overseas customers with a healthy environment in the car."
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