New factory to produce face masks set up in a week
February 11, 2020 Category China News Round-up, Weekly
Lianhe Kangli has set up a new factory capable of producing 10 million face masks every month and commenced trial production in Beijing ETown in Daxing district. It took just seven days during the Lunar New Year holiday from the time the company said that it was looking for a place to set up a plant to produce masks for the current battle against the virus and getting all the necessary paperwork and approvals. The factory is expected to initially produce 20,000 N95-type masks and 200,000 three-layer surgical masks every day. Its production capacity will reach 10 million masks every month at full capacity.
On January 26, staff on duty at the Beijing Economic Technological Development Area received a call, saying that a company named Lianhe Kangli had equipment to produce masks, but they needed to find a plant with a high-standard of cleanliness, the China Daily reports. Wang Lijun, Deputy Director of ETown’s Technological Innovation Bureau, helped them find a plant at the Beijing UnionLuck Biological Technology Co. To set up a factory in Beijing, Lianhe Kangli, which had only manufactured products in Henan province, had to go through industrial and commercial registration, industrial project approval and environmental impact assessment formalities with the local authorities. A WeChat working group was set up by 13 departments of Beijing ETown to help the company complete the procedures within a few days. More than 40 enterprises in Beijing have been involved in the fight against the epidemic, half of which have developed products for the prevention, control and treatment of the novel coronavirus, according to ETown officials.
Some companies have also donated money directly to Wuhan, the epicenter of the epidemic. For instance, Beijing BOE Display Technology Co, a display producer and solutions provider, donated CNY10 million on January 27. Many foreign enterprises in ETown have also joined the fight against the new virus. A computed tomography scanning machine made by GE’s Beijing factory was produced in ETown within three days and has been sent to the new Leishenshan hospital in Wuhan. Usually, it takes about three weeks to produce such a CT scan machine, which is composed of more than 6,000 parts, involving nearly 150 suppliers at home and abroad, the China Daily reports.
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