Earlier, many domestic companies turned to the production of masks and protective clothing and other anti-epidemic materials, such as SAIC-GM-Wuling and BYD, the two car companies to the main production of masks for everyone to know. The current domestic epidemic has been effectively controlled, but the situation abroad is not optimistic, so overseas governments have begun to mobilize private enterprises to produce anti-epidemic materials or rescue equipment, today to inventory some of the representative enterprises abroad.
Ford/Tesla and medical companies to cooperate in the production of respirators
There is already a shortage of respirators in the United States, with fewer than 6,000 in New York state, but the demand for at least 30,000, which is likely to continue to grow as the epidemic worsens. Ford has now announced that it will partner with GE Healthcare to produce 50,000 ventilators over the next 100 days, with 1,500 expected to be produced by the end of April, 12,000 by the end of May, and 50,000 by July 4th.
And not long ago, Musk also made remarks that belittled the outbreak, however, the outbreak in the U.S. is growing too rapidly, for which Musk also had to retract what he had said before, and instead offered the excess ventilators owned by Tesla free of charge to hospitals in need of them. Meanwhile, medical device maker Medtronic?Plc has partnered with Tesla, which will soon begin producing ventilators at its Fremont, California, plant, perhaps a series of moves that could quell some of Musk's earlier comments.
Lamborghini produces masks that are more collectible than practical
No one would have thought that ultra-luxury brands would join the production of anti-epidemic materials, and Italy's Lamborghini has done just that, in connection with the current serious epidemic in Italy. In the near future, Lamborghini will be remodeling parts of its supercar production facility for the production of medical surgical masks and Plexiglas protective masks.
Let's take a look at Lamborghini's masks, it is indeed much more delicate than the average medical masks, after all, it is a super-luxury brand, and the materials used are enough, except that this production is a bit shabby, one day production of 1,000 only. After the epidemic, Lamborghini's mask is also quite some collection value, after all, so exquisite medical masks are not expected to have a second company to produce.
Toyota crosses borders to help U.S. hospitals
Toyota has struck a deal with the medical-device maker to help boost its production. Toyota said it will begin mass-producing masks in early April to supply hospitals near its plants in Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan and Texas.On March 26, Toyota had extended its North American plant shutdown by two weeks, and Toyota said that because of the idled plants, it wanted to use its expertise and technology to help provide the medical supplies and equipment hospitals need to respond to the crisis of the new coronavirus outbreak.
In fact, many car companies have idle production lines to mass-produce medical supplies after a shutdown. Car companies are generally huge and their productivity is considerable, so the addition of car companies could greatly ease the current supply crunch.
Parts supplier Magna seat plant more on production
Magna, the world's largest supplier of automotive manufacturing services and parts, has already begun production of masks at some of its plants in North America and Europe, two regions where the outbreak has been severe. Because Magna owns seating plants, which have massive cutting and sewing lines, the switch to producing masks to support hospitals became a natural fit.
Magna's factories in Russia, Serbia and the Czech*** Republic can now produce 51,000 masks a day, and in Mexico, Magna's cut-and-sew plant can produce 2,000 masks a day, with the team aiming to reach the same level of production as its European counterparts. In addition to this, Magna also leverages its global sourcing resources to collect large quantities of masks, for example, 510,000 KN95-rated masks have been collected from China and donated to hospitals across North America. Magna's powertrain team in China raised 30,000 KN95-rated masks to be shipped to Italy.
Do you own Dior's hand sanitizer?
LVMH doesn't produce masks directly, but because its companies have perfume lines that can produce alcohol-containing absorbents directly, three perfume lines at Dior, Givenchy and Guerlain have switched to producing alcohol-containing sanitizing hand sanitizers and will produce 12 tons of hand sanitizers in the first week to ease the shortage of hand sanitizers in France.
And another luxury goods giant, Paris House and Saint Laurent under the Kering Group, have also begun large-scale production of masks. In fact, these traditional garment industries have complete cutting and sewing production lines, and they only need some simple special equipment for mask production, and they can be immediately transformed into big mask factories, which in Europe, where there are many clothing groups in Europe can indeed be promoted.
And the LVHM group also ordered 40 million masks from China, and all of them are provided free of charge to individuals and companies in need. The first ****order of 10 million masks, worth 5 million euros (about 38 million yuan), will be delivered in the next few days. This will be followed by the delivery of the masks to the French Health Service Center next week for distribution to those in need. And the rest of the order will be delivered in the coming weeks.
Opinion
Numerous car companies produce epidemic prevention materials, there are many aspects of consideration, the first is to be able to logically reflect their own sense of social responsibility, so that not only can help the country to tide over the difficult times, but also in the minds of consumers to build a better brand image, get a wider range of recognition. The second is also hope that through their own power to fight the epidemic, because there has been a shutdown will allow these enterprises to receive huge losses, and the sooner the epidemic is controlled the sooner the resumption of work, reduce their losses, then why not use the existing idle production line to produce epidemic prevention materials?
No matter what the purpose of the production of anti-epidemic materials, are worthy of our praise, in the people's need to decisively come forward to help the country through the difficult times, but also these large-scale enterprise sense of responsibility of the highest embodiment.
This article comes from the author of the automobile home car family number, does not represent the views of the automobile home position.