Wuxi company to donate 100,000 masks every day

Jiangyin-based electric power company Envision Group builds a new production center for masks, which can produce 100,000 masks a day. [Photo/wxrb.com]

Jiangyin-based electric power company Envision Group donated 100,000 masks to enterprises, schools and local communities to help workers fighting against the novel coronavirus epidemic (COVID-19) on March 2.

It was the second day that the company's new production center for masks had been back in operation, after construction was completed in 15 days. The new center can produce 100,000 masks a day with three assembly lines, one of which makes N95 masks.

After the outbreak of the epidemic, medical supplies became scarce across China. Many companies are now transforming their businesses to provide medical supplies for workers fighting the epidemic.

Thanks to its long-term experience in design and operation of ultra-clean workshops based on vision power batteries in Japan and the United States, Envision Group adapted its production center to make masks in only two weeks.

Thanks to strong support from the local government, the company quickly changed its business license to include production of medical protective suits, according to Gu Naibin, senior director of the group's manufacturing department.

Since Feb 13, Envision Group has donated money, masks, protective equipment and other materials worth millions of yuan to medical and epidemic prevention institutions in key areas such as Hubei province.

Zhang Lei, CEO of Envision Group, named the mask-production center a “smile” production center, saying that it produces smiles and hope as well as masks. He said the company is trying its best to fulfill its corporate social responsibility to support the city's efforts to prevent and control the virus outbreak.

As COVID-19 spreads worldwide, the company will also donate masks to Japan and South Korea.