Car companies turn on new skills British Prime Minister requests Rolls-Royce to produce respirators

It's not the epidemic, BYD and Wuling Motors wouldn't have thought they had a day to produce masks. Also because of the epidemic, Rolls-Royce may cross the border to produce respirators.

With the spread of the epidemic in Europe, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson issued a plea for their help in defeating the coronavirus: a request for private hospitals to be freed up beds, as well as a request for Rolls-Royce and JCB (JCB) industrial machinery to help produce respiratory machines in response to the coronavirus pandemic.

In addition to Rolls-Royce, Ford, Honda, Rolls-Royce, Peugeot Citroen, Vauxhall and others have been asked by the British government to help produce medical equipment.

According to overseas media reports, the UK Department of Health has revealed that in a worst-case scenario, the NHS would need an extra 20,000 ventilators, whereas at present the system only has about 5,000 adult ventilators and 900 child ventilators.? The current shortfall is relatively large.

Meanwhile, the British agency said it was not clear how car companies or other manufacturers would move to producing specialized medical equipment, what parts would be needed or what certifications would be required. One option would be to adopt defense industry rules, which could be used to require certain factories to follow designs to quickly produce what is needed. Apart from being unlikely to make electronic components, UK industry is capable of doing the switch to other products.

As well as Rolls-Royce making respirators, LVMH, Europe's and the world's largest luxury goods conglomerate, is also heavily involved in the battle against the epidemic.

On March 16, LVMH, the parent company of LV (and also the parent company of Guerlain, Givenchy, and Dior), said it would use its perfume production line to help France produce sanitizer/hand sanitizer. It is reported that the sanitizer/hand sanitizer produced by LVMH and provided free of charge to local health departments and hospitals in France. I wonder if LV's hand sanitizer will be particularly clean.

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