With the outbreak of pneumonia caused by the new coronavirus, the demand for medical and daily protective masks has increased significantly. During the Spring Festival holiday, companies and stores have limited inventory and supply is in short supply, making it difficult to find a mask. Some stores have also raised the prices of masks in stock, causing dissatisfaction among consumers.
On January 28, the State Administration for Market Regulation held a video and telephone conference on the prevention and control of the new coronavirus infection pneumonia epidemic. Xiao Yaqing, Director of the General Administration and Secretary of the Party Leadership Group, emphasized that it is necessary to thoroughly study the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping’s important instructions and instructions, implement the decisions and arrangements of the Central Leading Group for Response to the New Coronavirus Infection Pneumonia Epidemic, focus on market price supervision, and focus on closing wildlife markets and platforms, focusing on product quality and safety, mainly food and protective equipment, and further implementing various regulatory measures to resolutely win the battle against epidemic prevention and control.
Xiao Yaqing requested that in accordance with the unified deployment of the Central Leading Group for New Coronavirus Infection Pneumonia Epidemic, focus on market price supervision, and continue to increase the supervision of epidemic prevention supplies, people’s livelihood supplies, etc. Strengthen the price supervision of important commodities, maintain market price order, and immediately carry out special inspections of mask prices to resolutely stem the trend of mask price increases.
Why are there insufficient reserves of masks?
In addition to the price gouging by a few people, short-term shortage of reserves is also the reason for the market shortage and the price increase of masks. So, as a major manufacturing country, why do we have a shortage of mask stocks?
According to analysis, the existing production capacity of masks is the natural result of the market. The vast majority of Chinese people do not have the habit of wearing masks on a daily basis, even during flu season. Demand determines supply, which means that the production capacity of masks is not that huge, far from reaching the level of daily necessities. In addition, the pricing of the mask industry is transparent and there is no price advantage. When factories rely on small profits to survive, it is easy to exit the industry. Due to the shelf life of masks, manufacturers do not dare to stock too many stocks.
A senior executive of 3M China Co., Ltd. wrote in the circle of friends: “3M has no more masks in stock.” At the same time, he also said, “The factory’s stocking and raw material supply are all If we do it on a monthly basis, the demand will suddenly increase a hundred times, and we will not be able to produce as much as a year.”
He also mentioned “electrostatic filter materials.” Since dust in the air is more or less positively or negatively charged, masks using qualified electrostatic filter materials can not only intercept them mechanically, but also absorb tiny particles through the electrostatic properties of the material, and have a high filtration effect—— This is one of the raw materials for producing high-filtration masks. The shortage of raw materials also prevents the production capacity of such high-standard products from being rapidly increased to a certain extent.
How long will it take to restore mask production capacity?
Whether the shortage of masks can be solved to a certain extent depends on whether the production capacity of masks can be rapidly increased in the short term.
On January 26, Wang Jiangping, Vice Minister of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, said that currently, 40% of the area of relevant enterprises has resumed work and production. Judging from publicly reported data, this number continues to increase. Assuming that all raw materials are in place, China’s mask factories, which were quickly mobilized and operated at full capacity, can quickly resume production capacity.
In addition to the recovery of domestic production capacity, companies and individuals are also purchasing medical supplies globally:
On January 25, Alibaba announced the establishment of a 1 billion yuan special fund for the supply of medical supplies from overseas. Directly purchase medical supplies from home and abroad. On January 24, Fosun launched a global medical supplies deployment plan, purchasing more than 50,000 sets of protective clothing and more than 200,000 medical masks in the United Kingdom, Germany, Portugal, Japan, India and other places that afternoon. On the 26th, Zall Holdings used its cross-border supply chain resources to purchase 3.2 million medical masks from the Philippines, Cambodia and other places, and 200,000 protective clothing were transported to Wuhan via China Eastern Airlines charter flights…
In the government, With the efforts of enterprises and individuals, the shortage of masks and other medical supplies will be alleviated. The latest news is that Shanghai has begun to put masks in 1,000 pharmacies across the city, gradually restoring market supply.
However, during the epidemic period when the demand is still huge, it is unlikely that masks will be loosely supplied. Therefore, during this period when the epidemic has not yet been brought under control, what everyone has to do is to stay at home, try not to go out unless necessary, reduce the consumption of masks, buy rationally, do not blindly hoard goods, and save masks for those who really need them people.
Enterprises call for joint efforts from upstream and downstream companies to resume work, resume production and ensure supply
Overcome multiple difficulties
Hubei Xiantao City non-woven enterprise urgently resumes production
Faced with the pneumonia epidemic caused by the new coronavirus infection As the epidemic continues to ferment, the demand for medical supplies such as masks and protective clothing has increased sharply. Xiantao City in Hubei Province is China’s largest non-woven sanitary materials processing and export base. Many non-woven products companies in the city are working at full capacity to increase production.
“More than 40 employees have arrived at work and are stepping up the production of protective clothing!” At about 21:00 on January 25, the company was under quarantine.Relevant requirements.
In the face of the epidemic, Jiangyin companies are resuming work and production as soon as possible while continuing to expand the capacity of medical supplies such as protective clothing. Jiangyin Shenghuadun Protection Technology Co., Ltd. is contacting the equipment and raw materials and preparing for the clean workshop. It plans to use 7-10 days to form a weekly production capacity of 15,000 sets of medical protective clothing (reusable) and 300,000 medical masks. , at the same time, we coordinate the import of complete sets of head-to-toe protective clothing from Japan and South Korea. About 2,000 sets can arrive within one week of placing an order. After Jiangyin Baobai Packaging Co., Ltd. received the “Letter Asking for Help in Coordinating the Production of Emergency Supplies” issued by the Nanjing Municipal Bureau of Industry and Information Technology, it coordinated and arranged production deployment, employee induction and other work within just one hour, according to the highest priority. Adjusting production scheduling can shorten product production delivery time from 20 days to 2 days. Jiangyin Huaying Light Industrial Products Co., Ltd. provides 20,000 disposable paper-plastic bed sheets and disposable paper-plastic pillowcases to epidemic areas.
According to preliminary statistics, Jiangyin is currently involved in raw and auxiliary materials for emergency supplies for the prevention and control of new coronavirus infection and pneumonia, mainly producing non-woven fabrics for medical protective products, aluminum foil for pharmaceutical packaging, and medical protection products. Product accessories, etc., supporting medical protective product manufacturers in Shanghai, Anhui, Shandong, Nanjing, Suzhou and other countries.
“After emergency investigation and mobilization, more than 30 companies in Jiangyin, including the production of traditional Chinese medicine, protective clothing, masks and related accessories, have been put into production one after another since the beginning of the year. We must work overtime to meet the current needs for epidemic prevention and control,” said Liu Jianjun, deputy director of Jiangyin Municipal Bureau of Industry and Information Technology.
Kunshan enterprises work overtime for production
Four efforts to ensure material supply
In the past few days, Kunshan City has united as one and responded quickly. Relevant companies have worked overtime to ensure production, and departments have cooperated closely and gone all out to ensure the supply of prevention and control materials. After investigation, there are 3 mask manufacturers in the city, with a daily production capacity of about 400,000 pieces; 1 thermometer manufacturer, with a weekly production capacity of 50,000 pieces. All districts, towns and departments are actively cooperating to help enterprises put into production as soon as possible and increase production capacity.
On the morning of January 27, the third day of the Lunar New Year, the reporter saw at Jiangsu Shengfang Nano Materials Technology Co., Ltd. in Bacheng Town, wearing work clothes in the spunbond 3S workshop , technicians wearing blue work caps are debugging the machine. “We preheated the equipment in advance on the second day of the Lunar New Year. As soon as the technicians in the third year of junior high school debugged it, it was put into production immediately.” The relevant person in charge of Jiangsu Shengfang Nano Materials Technology Co., Ltd. told reporters that after the production line is started, the production line will be produced every day. It has produced 36 tons of non-woven fabrics and is expected to produce 100,000 sets of protective clothing and 500,000 masks.
Jiangsu Shengfang Nanomaterial Technology Co., Ltd. is a company engaged in the research and development and production of modified nonwoven materials, nanomaterials, functional fibers and Composite materials companies originally planned to resume work on February 1. On January 25, the first day of the Lunar New Year, the company’s general manager Zhu Yunbin drove back to Kunshan from Wenzhou, Zhejiang, and urgently summoned employees to return to the factory. He promised to reimburse all travel expenses and meal expenses, and pay three times the salary, etc., and went all out to ensure production. . Zhu Yunbin said: “After the production line is started, we will implement 24-hour uninterrupted production to provide raw materials for companies that produce prevention and control materials.”
With the raw materials guaranteed, Mask manufacturers can start production. On January 28, the fourth day of the Lunar New Year, the sterile production workshop of Kunshan Jiehong Nonwoven Products Co., Ltd. in Dianshan Lake Town was busy. Nearly a hundred workers were working hard to produce disposable masks. “The company mainly produces disposable and repetitive non-woven medical products such as protective clothing, isolation gowns, and surgical gowns. The production of masks has been suspended for more than four years. However, recently, taking into account the needs of epidemic prevention and control, the company decided to restart the mask production line. Shen Lingling, deputy general manager of the company, said that 90% of the company’s products are exported to Europe and the United States. The company passed the U.S. FDA 510K certification in 2011, but has not registered for domestic Class I medical device production. To this end, the person in charge of the company rushed to the relevant provincial departments to handle relevant procedures and obtained quick approval through the green channel.
“Currently, the first batch of raw materials has been in place. Due to the shortage of manpower, the current production capacity can produce approximately 20,000 masks and 2,000 protective clothing per day .” Shen Lingling said that in order to improve productivity, the company has posted a recruitment notice. After employees and raw materials are in place, the company will further increase the production of masks and protective clothing to provide guarantee for epidemic prevention and control.
In order to improve the production capacity of Kunshan Jiehong Non-Woven Products Co., Ltd., Dianshan Lake Town called on party members and volunteers to take active actions and organized 20 party member volunteers every day through voluntary registration. Assist enterprises in production. Moving, packing, and boxing, party members and volunteers can be seen everywhere in the production workshop of Kunshan Jiehong Nonwoven Products Co., Ltd. “As a party member, in the face of the epidemic, we should play an exemplary role, interpret our original intention and mission with practical actions, face difficulties, unite as one, and contribute to winning the battle against epidemic prevention and control.” Party member volunteer Tan Shilue said.
In accordance with the principle of “efficiency first”, the material support team also actively shortened the procurement process and accelerated the progress of material procurement; increased the variety of material reserves, in addition to masks, added protective gloves, goggles, Disinfectant, bleach, hand sanitizer, isolation gown, etc.; expand material procurement channels, make full use of the existing supply network and distribution system to achieve multi-channel procurement; adopt door-to-door pickup, logistics distribution, supplier distribution and other methods to speed up Material delivery speed.
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In accordance with the principle of “efficiency first”, the material support team also actively shortens the procurement process and speeds up the progress of material procurement. ; Increase the variety of material reserves, in addition to masks, add protective gloves, goggles, disinfectant, bleach, hand sanitizer, isolation gowns, etc.; Expand material procurement channels, make full use of the existing supply network and distribution system, and achieve multi-channel procurement; Use door-to-door pickup, logistics distribution, supplier distribution and other methods to speed up the delivery of materials.
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