With the continuous spread of the epidemic, Wuhan and Hubei provinces in the epidemic areas have already faced a very serious shortage of materials. Therefore, after implementing various forms of assistance such as donation, material donation and modification of ambulances, car companies began to transform production lines to produce masks.
Two days ago, BYD Auto officially announced the design and manufacture of protective material production equipment to assist in the production of masks and disinfectant, and said that it is expected to be mass-produced and shipped around February 17. After in-depth understanding, it is found that BYD is far more than one cross-border manufacturer of masks, only three car companies, SAIC, GAC and BYD.
The emergence of these phenomena is precisely because we are currently in a special epidemic period, and masks and disinfectant have become important strategic materials. However, at present, these materials are in short supply. At this time, enterprises use their own advantages to switch to masks, which is beneficial to people and self-interest. On the one hand, it solves the protection problem of enterprises after returning to work, on the other hand, it can also support epidemic prevention work.
BYD: Besides masks, BYD also announced the production of disinfectant.
On February 8, BYD announced that it would allocate resources, design and manufacture protective materials production equipment, and assist in the production of masks and disinfectant to meet the current demand for protective materials.
According to the plan, BYD's disinfectant and masks are expected to be mass-produced and shipped around February 17. By the end of February, the company's daily output of disinfectant is 50,000 bottles, and the daily output of medical masks can reach 5 million.
Not only that, BYD has also increased the research and development, production and sales of disinfectant products. BYD said that masks and disinfectant are expected to be mass-produced and shipped around February 17. The production capacity of masks can reach 5 million tablets/day by the end of this month, and the production capacity of disinfectant is 50,000 bottles/day until the epidemic situation is alleviated and eliminated.
Guangzhou Automobile Group: Actively promote mask production and support epidemic prevention and control.
Recently, Zeng Qinghong, chairman of Guangzhou Automobile Group, led Li Jin, chairman of Guangzhou Automobile Components, and Gong Hanqing, general manager, and his party to Dongguan Kuaiyuda, a manufacturer of mask production equipment, to learn about the manufacturing, assembly and debugging technology of mask production equipment and to study the technical feasibility of building a new mask production line.
On February 7th, Guangzhou Auto Parts Technology Center sent a number of party member employees to Kuaiyuda Company to study for 15 days in order to master the molding, electrical related technology and production process of protective masks as soon as possible.
SAIC-GM-Wuling: From donating money and materials to producing epidemic prevention materials.
Among domestic automobile enterprises, SAIC-GM-Wuling first proposed to produce masks. As early as February 6th, SAIC-GM-Wuling announced that the joint supplier would rebuild the production line to produce masks. It is understood that the project took less than five days from putting forward the idea to entering the specific implementation stage.
According to the project construction plan, the reconstructed mask production workshop will be completed and put into use this month, and 14 mask production lines will be set up, including 4 N95 mask production lines and 10 general medical protective mask production lines. It is estimated that the daily production capacity will reach 1.7 million or more.
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Although these car companies represented by SGM Wuling, Guangzhou Automobile Group and BYD can quickly switch to masks by virtue of their own advantages, they need to purchase the necessary production lines and invest a lot of manpower. The economic benefits of producing masks may be minimal for car companies, but they have the courage to assume this social responsibility and let everyone see the hope of realizing the freedom of masks at an early date.
Of course, there is a very special enterprise in the war against the epidemic, which is the extensive participation of automobile enterprises. Unlike the above-mentioned enterprises engaged in sideline business, Geely's approach is still to focus on the main business of automobiles.
On February 4th, Geely Holding Group decided that Geely Automobile would invest 370 million yuan in advance to start the research and development of all-round healthy cars with virus prevention function.
Although the idea of an all-round health car was born in the current anti-epidemic background, it is of great significance to improve the level of health protection in the car. In the future, it will be officially put into the market, and the industry's evaluation standard for "interior ecological environment" will also usher in great innovation.
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