5 times the wage to recruit workers to return to the factory
Located in Wuhan City, Hubei Wei pro medical technology limited company from the first day of the New Year to 3 times the overtime pay to recall the workers, but is willing to return to work very few, the past day production of more than 10,000, the output of only a few thousand.
Sichuan Hengming Science and Technology Development Co., Ltd. on January 21 to urgently organize the workers back to the factory to resume work, "a production machine requires three workers, three shifts **** 18 people. Inspection, sterilization, warehousing and other links also need workers." The company's general manager, Liao Jiaming, said the factory's production limit of 120,000 masks a day, the machine is running at high capacity every day, "because the mask workshop is sterile, workers must wear protective clothing to enter, in order to reduce the waste of protective clothing, workers basically 8 hours to go to the toilet only once, the water can not drink a few mouths."
"There are not enough production staff, only family members temporarily on duty." Cheng Yushan, the person in charge of Tongcheng City, Anhui Province, Vircon Labor Protective Products Co. said that the plant was just completed at the end of 2019, and there are more than ten normal production staff. Some employees go home for New Year's Eve can not return to work or because of the fear of the epidemic is not willing to return to work, "Our factory is relatively small, no ability to pay high wages to ask employees to return to work, so under the premise of good hygiene and safety measures, you can only let your family members on duty, basically working more than 10 hours a day." This Spring Festival, she and her family spent most of the time in the factory.
"Now the number of volunteers on our production line is five times the number of employees returning to work, and the percentage of employees returning to work is less than 10%." Anhui Monique Medical Materials Co., Ltd. employee Dai Yelan said that since January 25 the company openly ask for help from the community, recruitment of raw materials for the production of protective clothing and masks and production staff, more than 20 volunteers came to apply for the job, many of whom are retirees. Volunteers mainly do cutting threads, folding, sticking tape and other simple manual work, the company's employees are responsible for sewing machines and tape machines and other machines used in the technical work.
Some raw material prices rose 10 times
This is not the status quo of one company, the supply cost of the entire mask industry chain has risen due to the outbreak of the epidemic. Liao Jiaming pointed out that raw material traders are also facing the problem of difficulty in resuming work during the Spring Festival, "they also have to bear the cost of labor."
"A mask requires raw materials including non-woven fabrics, ear wear, nose clips, meltblown fabrics, etc., and it is difficult to ensure that every raw material can be supplied. Coupled with logistics stoppages and traffic control, transportation is also a problem." Gan Jian said, "the price of masks on the market, many of the raw materials and labor costs rose as a result, some raw material costs rose 5 to 10 times."
"Machines and equipment are not in place, there is only one fully automatic machine in production, the rest are semi-automatic, all need to be equipped with production staff." Cheng Yushan said that the lack of production machines, production staff can not greatly increase production capacity.
Zhang Wendong is concerned that the market demand is now too large, there is no planning will lead to a low level of a swarm of construction, "Now many companies are waiting for the mask machine factory to go to work to buy machinery."
For Shu Jiasen, head of Hubei Wei pro medical technology limited company, the biggest problem is the interruption of upstream and downstream supply of raw materials, especially in terms of packaging materials for mask bags.
"We do semi-finished products directly sub-assembled, packaging is relatively simple, in the professional skills required is not high, there are now only two workers, the office staff will also help." Shu Jiasen explained, due to the packaging materials suppliers early ten before going to work, coupled with transportation restrictions, freight companies can not keep up in a timely manner, resulting in the production of masks have no way to package, and then can not be put into the market.
LIFAair mask original instructions are printed on the bag, Zhang Wendong said, due to the bag inkjet company after the 15th of the first month to go to work, and now is part of the workers to print their own paper instructions to bag.
Gap huge masks can be entrusted to the production
"Masks production process is not complicated, but after the production out of the need to go through up to 16 hours of sterilization, to meet the use of standards before they can be put on the market." According to Liao Jiaming, the long time consuming production of masks is also a reason for slow production and insufficient supply.
According to the epidemic protection tips, masks need to be replaced once every four hours. In the medical field, the gap is even greater, many hospitals around the world issued one announcement after another, announcing that the masks and other protective supplies are in short supply.
Zhang Wendong believes that the lack of medical masks is due to the production of fewer companies, because of the low demand for medical masks under normal circumstances. "Medical masks are more expensive to produce, and after production, they need to be shipped to qualified companies to do ethylene oxide sterilization, placed and then shipped back for sale."
In order to cope with the huge demand, Zhang Wendong proposed that a rapid response mechanism be established, and enterprises with technology and sales channels can commission some enterprises with medical qualifications to produce gauze and bandages on behalf of the production, as a way to increase the output of medical masks.
The Dongguan Songshan Lake Hi-Tech Industrial Development Zone Management Committee, where LIFAair is located, took the initiative to ask about the needs of the enterprise, and coordinated to solve the problems of raw material supply and printing press printing. This makes Zhang Wendong feel very solid, "The government is helping us try to solve the mask problem."
Since January 30, Anhui Province, in order to resolve the contradiction between supply and demand of masks, began to market affordable masks: Anqing City, to pharmacies and supermarkets to put 100,000 KN95 masks, pricing of 7 yuan per mask; Chuzhou Municipal Government, through the 235 pharmacies (including counties and municipalities) to the Chuzhou market for disposable medical protective masks, uniform pricing of 0.75 yuan/only, the public can buy with the health insurance card, the public can buy. Limit the purchase of 10/person.
The Yunnan Provincial Department of Industry and Information Technology released a news release on January 30, said the organization has organized the province's mask production enterprises to resume production, coordinating enterprises to solve the difficulties in the supply of raw materials, transportation and logistics, water, electricity and gas and other factors of production, to help a number of circulation in the province to open up domestic and foreign channels to purchase masks. To read more, please download the China Youth Daily client ()