Coronavirus factory built in 10 days to make 1,000,000 bottles of hand sanitiser - Metro.co.uk

People clean their hands with hand sanitiser before entering the area to view the Tokyo 2020 Olympic flame on display at Ofunato, Iwate prefecture on March 23, 2020. - The flame arrived on March 20 in Miyagi prefecture north of Tokyo, following the traditional lighting ceremony in Greece which took place without spectators due to the ongoing worldwide COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak. (Photo by Philip FONG / AFP) (Photo by PHILIP FONG/AFP via Getty Images) — (Picture: Getty)

A factory is being built in 10 days in order to produce one million bottles of hand sanitiser a month, a British chemical company has announced.

Ineos announced plans to build a hand sanitiser plant near Middlesbrough to keep up with soaring demand as the UK enters lockdown in its fight against coronavirus.

The bottles produced in the north of England will supply hospitals, schools, places of work, pharmacies and supermarkets. Products for hospitals will be issued for free, the company said. A similar factory will be built in Germany to bridge shortages across Europe.

Ineos is Europe’s largest producer of the two main raw materials needed for hospital grade hand sanitiser at its sites in Grangemouth, Scotland and in northern Germany, and produces almost 1 million tonnes.

GRANGEMOUTH, SCOTLAND - SEPTEMBER 27: Jim Ratcliffe CEO of INEOS and senior executives attend a press conference at the Grangemouth plant as the first ship carrying shale gas from the US arrives in the Firth of Forth on September 27, 2016 in Edinburgh, Scotland. The tanker is the first of eight shipping ethane from US shale fields, in a two billion dollar investment by chemical company INEOS. (Photo by Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images) — Ineos CEO Jim Ratcliffe said sanitisers will be given to hospitals free of charge (Picture: Getty)

Ineos said it intends to produce both standard and the pocket bottle hand sanitisers, and is already talking to retail outlets across Europe.

The company already manufactures a range of healthcare products, including rubber gloves, PVC saline drips, syringes, ventilators and medical tubing.

For all the latest news and updates on Coronavirus, click here.

For our Coronavirus live blog click here.

Sir Jim Ratcliffe, founder and chairman of Ineos, said: ‘Ineos is a company with enormous resources and manufacturing skills.

‘If we can find other ways to help in the coronavirus battle, we are absolutely committed to playing our part.’

Get in touch with our news team by emailing us at webnews@metro.co.uk.

For more stories like this, check our news page.

Let's block ads! (Why?)

"Factory" - Google News
March 24, 2020 at 05:57PM
https://ift.tt/33Jb4rQ

Coronavirus factory built in 10 days to make 1,000,000 bottles of hand sanitiser - Metro.co.uk
"Factory" - Google News
https://ift.tt/2TEEPHn
Shoes Man Tutorial
Pos News Update
Meme Update
Korean Entertainment News
Japan News Update

Bagikan Berita Ini

Search

Coronavirus factory built in 10 days to make 1,000,000 bottles of hand sanitiser - Metro.co.uk

0 Response to "Coronavirus factory built in 10 days to make 1,000,000 bottles of hand sanitiser - Metro.co.uk"

Post a Comment