Hubei province outside the 16 consecutive decline in many places there are 0 new cases of confirmed, the new crown pneumonia epidemic gradually from the peak into a period of moderation, in addition to Hubei, the country's new confirmed and new suspected has been the beginning of a trend of inflection point.
While the epidemic prevention and control is still the focus of attention, but the orderly resumption of work is also in a critical period, can not be ignored. In the post-epidemic era, how to ensure that production and life in a healthy condition of normal operation is the problem to be solved.
On February 11, the State Council held a press conference on the prevention and control of the new coronavirus, the National Development and Reform Commission, Director of the Department of Social Development, Ou Xiaoli, disclosed that due to the resumption of work in various industries to resume work to promote the work of production, the demand for protective materials has increased dramatically.
Roughly calculated, China has a population of 1.4 billion people, and if we strictly follow the experts' recommendation to replace a mask every four hours, China's daily demand is at least 2.8 billion.
According to the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, China's mask production capacity of about 20 million per day, but due to the impact of the epidemic, the current production capacity is only restored to less than 70%, and most of them are ordinary masks and a variety of protective levels of dust, haze masks, the front line of the much-needed N95 medical protective masks daily production capacity is only about 600,000 only.
In the case of a huge gap, the situation has been urgent, such a huge demand relying on existing mask manufacturers, I'm afraid that the heart is more than enough.
We need more people can come forward
For the resumption of the surge of the huge mask gap, many and mask production "eight pole not hit" large car companies SAIC-GM-Wuling, GAC Group, BYD Auto have joined the mask production team.
The first step out of this is the Wuling car, as early as January 31, SAIC-GM Wuling Guangxi Autonomous Region Party Committee and Government of the epidemic prevention and control of the relevant requirements, the company urgently purchased from Indonesia, India, shipped back to the 20,000 medical masks used to support the front line of prevention and control.
But with the continuous development of the epidemic, many countries, including Indonesia, the mask as a strategic reserve materials, can not be sustained from abroad to buy and transport back home. This also gave them the idea of "producing their own masks".
Shanghai Automobile General Motors Corporation (SAIC-GM-5Ling), with strong support from the Guangxi, Liuzhou and Laibin municipal governments, has been working with suppliers to convert production lines to produce masks.
As of Feb. 9, the first batch of 200,000 masks jointly produced by suppliers at the Wuling plant had already rolled off the production line, and the daily output of the 14 mask production lines set up in its dust-free workshop, including four N95 mask production lines and 10 production lines for general medical protection masks, is expected to be able to reach a further 1.7 million units.
And the domestic new energy giant BYD has also joined the queue to switch to the production of masks on the premise that it has already donated 10 million dollars in funds as well as 1 million dollars in medical supplies. According to BYD's official information, it was announced that the output will be on February 17, with a daily output of about 5 million, in addition to disinfectant about 50,000 bottles a day. These two items, just for the current social "ten thousand people grab empty" situation.
It is understood that the production of the specific division of labor for the BYD Central Research Institute is responsible for the production of disinfectant, BYD Electronics Business Group nine is responsible for the production of masks. The disinfectant is produced in Shanwei BYD Industrial Co., Ltd. and the masks are produced in BYD's ninth division in Shenzhen's Baolong Industrial Park.
The same show of national sentiment of Guangzhou Automobile, in February 6, Guangzhou Automobile Group party secretary and chairman Zeng Qinghong led a team to Dongguan mask production equipment manufacturers fast Yuda research, to understand the mask production equipment, manufacturing, assembly and debugging technology, to study the technical feasibility of a new production line of masks.
After conducting sufficient research, GAC Group formally announced the production plan of protective materials including masks, which will be handed over to the Parts and Components Division of GAC Group for promotion, and will not affect the main business of GAC Group's vehicle manufacturing.
After days of processing and sprinting, GAC's five production lines for masks have been installed, and its homemade masks are officially in mass production today.
It is reported that BAIC's homemade masks will be coordinated by the Guangzhou Municipal Government, and will not be retailed to the public. Priority will be given to supporting the use of frontline personnel in medical, public transportation, cab, subway and other epidemic prevention and control and public **** services, and will also be provided to BAIC Group employees and owners of BAIC's vehicle brands, upstream and downstream partners, etc. After the production lines are fully activated, the daily production capacity of BAIC Group's homemade masks will reach 1 million units. 1,000,000 pieces.
Faced with a shortage of masks across the country, Changan Automobile has joined the ranks.
A few days ago, Changan Automobile announced that in order to combat the new coronavirus pneumonia epidemic, it will link Italy, Japan, Britain, the United States and Germany, "six countries and nine places" R & D centers and overseas bases, dealers and partners in emergency purchases, in addition to Changan Automobile has also joined hands with its partners to begin to mobilize resources and equipment to assist in the production of masks, to alleviate the urgent shortage of masks. The company has also started to mobilize resources and equipment from its partners to assist in the production of masks to alleviate the urgent need for masks.
Just today, the auto parts company ZF Group, after donating 4 million yuan worth of materials, also announced a new production line of masks to fully support the prevention and control of the epidemic, in an effort to make a modest contribution to the fight against the epidemic.
Regardless of the price, this kind of action can solve the urgent needs of the country, very praiseworthy. After the praise, most people may have this question: why can car companies produce masks? Do they have production qualifications? "Car brand" masks can be used?
Rest assured, "car brand" masks are very reliable
Before answering the above questions, let's first understand the production process and standards of the mask.
General medical masks are mainly composed of three layers, the outermost layer, the innermost layer, the skin contact layer of the materials used are non-woven fabrics, and the middle of the sandwich is a composite material called "polypropylene fiber" for the official explanation of this material is the production of the melt mass flow rate of polypropylene in the 33-41g/min, can reach the Eisai polypropylene products, and can be used for the production of the polypropylene products. The official explanation for this material is to produce polypropylene products with a melt mass flow rate of 33-41g/min, which can meet the Eisai polypropylene meltblown nonwoven standard and be used in the fields of medical surgical supplies and civil hygiene products.
This material is the main component of acoustic foam in the automotive industry, and is widely used in wheel arches, door panels, and the firewall behind the engine.
In addition, the paint shop of automobile companies has high dust-free standards, which is very similar to the production process of medical masks, some of the work equipment and processes and the paint shop. The dust-free environment of the coating workshop and the staff's familiarity with the operating procedures of the dust-free workshop have facilitated the cross-border production of masks.
So in terms of raw materials, production technology preparation, car companies have a great advantage to produce masks, the production line can be quickly start production after professional transformation. As long as the corresponding debugging in the production line, and in the product specifications to redefine the very period of time to switch to the production of masks is not difficult at all.
And SAIC-GM-Wuling part of the product sound-absorbing cotton is the use of a high standard of polypropylene, in the raw material supply chain, sound insulation cotton suppliers can provide adequate assurance; and responsible for the production of masks of BYD plant is BYD Division IX, it is understood that the Division itself has a medical device system certified plant, in the professionalism do not have to worry about it at all.
So, car companies manufacturing masks from the manufacturing process to the introduction of production equipment, raw materials, and then to the downstream packaging, have the advantage, compared to other cross-border enterprises, car companies manufacturing masks from the process of the project to the realization of the flow of goods, not only shorten the time of at least 2 to 3 months, the masks produced in the professionalism is also very reliable. This is the reason why car companies can realize the production in a short period of time.
All hands on deck to **** the odds
"User-centeredness" is a corporate philosophy that car companies often mention in their publicity.
After the war "epidemic", we have seen countless "retrograde" figure, which includes the front-line combat epidemic medical personnel, but also in the back of the silent payment to provide support for countless like SAIC-GM-Wuling, BYD, GAC Group, such as enterprises.
It is the perseverance of these people that gives people the courage to look forward to spring.
This article comes from the author of the automobile home car family, does not represent the views of the automobile home position.