Donating money and materials is not enough? These three car companies actually cross-border manufacturing of masks and plan to develop steam sterilizers

What is the most exciting thing in the circle of friends during this period? That is, micro-businessmen are selling masks, financial people are selling masks, and even janitor uncles are selling masks, but only pharmacies and hospitals say they are out of stock and have no masks. This phenomenon, you taste it, you taste it carefully.

The urgent shortage of masks has given many people the opportunity to make money from the national crisis. However, inferior fake masks not only fail to provide effective protection, but also increase the risk of secondary infection. It is against this background that the car companies that had donated money and materials some time ago could no longer sit still and began to produce cross-border production of masks, disinfectants and other anti-epidemic materials.

After SAIC-GM-Wuling announced that it would work with suppliers to rebuild production lines to produce masks, BYD and Guangzhou Automobile Group have also joined in this "cross-border" initiative for car companies to fight the epidemic.

The leadership team and technical center of Guangzhou Automobile Group are fully mobilized to study the mask production line

Although the automotive industry is not considered a front-line industry in this epidemic, regardless of whether it provides more than 1 billion Yuan's material donation is still using its own huge channel network to quickly mobilize resources. The sincerity of the major car companies is obvious to all.

After the outbreak of the epidemic, GAC Group has donated a total of more than 22 million yuan in financial donations. Faced with a serious shortage of medical protective materials, GAC Group first sent Zeng Qinghong, Li Jin, Gong Hanqing and other leadership teams to Dongguan. Investigate mask production equipment manufacturers, understand the manufacturing, assembly and debugging technology of mask production equipment, and study the technical feasibility of new mask production lines.

Frontline technical center employees were then quickly dispatched to mask companies to learn and master protective mask production equipment molding, welding, mechanical, electrical and other related technologies and production processes. As of now, GAC Group’s mask production conversion project is being implemented in full swing, and specific production capacity data and subsequent uses are yet to be announced.

According to internal information, GAC Group may also develop a vehicle steam sterilizer to provide safer epidemic protection for car owners.

SAIC-GM-Wuling will reach a daily production volume of approximately 1.7 million units by the end of February

Unlike BYD’s own production line, SAIC-GM-Wuling’s approach is to unite its main suppliers ——Guangxi Defu Technology Co., Ltd. came to renovate the production line for rapid shipment.

This company is the main supplier of SAIC-GM-Wuling. It specializes in the production of automotive sound-absorbing cotton, sound insulation materials, NVH materials and parts, so the production line can be adjusted relatively quickly. From the idea to implementation, in less than five days, the first batch of 200,000 masks produced by SAIC-GM-Wuling joint suppliers has successfully rolled off the production line.

According to the unified deployment of superior departments, this batch of masks is mainly used for civilian purposes, mainly for free distribution to employees of economic pillar companies located in the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region.

However, the current production line is not yet able to produce higher-standard medical-grade masks. After more professional production equipment arrives on the 26th of this month, SAIC-GM-Wuling joint suppliers will produce masks in a dust-free workshop environment. Carry out the production of medical grade masks.

The preliminary plan is to set up 14 mask production lines, of which 4 are N95 mask production lines and 10 are general medical protective mask production lines, ensuring a shipment volume of 2s/piece, and the daily output is expected to reach 1.7 million. indivual. The masks produced in the later stage will also be mainly handed over to the Guangxi government and Liuzhou government for material allocation.

BYD’s masks are not for sale for the time being and are mainly used on the frontline of epidemic prevention

“Equipment drawings are produced in 3 days and equipment is produced in a week! Products are produced in 10 days! BYD speed! Made in China! Everyone Everyone is fighting the epidemic with peace of mind." When BYD officially released this text message, everyone finally discovered that in addition to expanding its business scope this year, BYD also added the research and development, production, and sales of disinfectant and mask products.

According to the plan, the disinfectants and masks produced by BYD are expected to be mass-produced and shipped around February 17. By the end of February, the company's disinfectant production capacity can reach 50,000 bottles per day, and medical mask production capacity can reach 5 million per day until the epidemic is alleviated and eliminated.

The recent rumor that BYD masks will be sold in quantities of 1 million has also received an official response recently. The specifications of the masks are medical surgical masks. After shipment, they will mainly be supplied to epidemic areas, hospitals and anti-virus related departments. External sales will not be considered for the time being.

When there is excess production capacity, it will be supplied to some urgent enterprises and institutions, but it will only be sold externally at a low price, regardless of profit.

Shu Jin’s point of view: In this special period, masks and disinfectants are very important strategic materials. The car companies’ behavior of donating money and materials, and adjusting their production lines to produce anti-epidemic materials, will It can meet the needs of employees with huge technical skills for their own use, and secondly, it can well support the society's epidemic prevention work. Such an act of "doing nothing but killing two birds with one stone" is no wonder netizens are clamoring for it.

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This article comes from the author of Autohome Chejiahao and does not represent the views and positions of Autohome.