Companies Retooling their Operations to Assist in Fight Against Coronavirus

Companies around the world are retooling their operations to assist in Coronavirus fight. As the pandemic puts nations on wartime footing, distillers producing hand sanitizer, a car maker offers to assemble ventilators; a jeans factory switches to face masks.  Rolls Royce and the electronics manufacturer Dyson starting production of life-saving ventilators.  General Motors Co. and Ford Motors Co. have also put their idled factories to work making medical equipment including ventilators. Ferrari and Fiat Chrysler are going to assist Bologna-based Siare Engineering, as they ramp up ventilator production from 160 units to 500 a month.

At one hand, the current scenario has become a challenge and at other hand it has created many opportunities for Engineering, Electronics and other manufacturers to produce medical equipment for fighting against Corona virus.

This situation has also created an opportunity for Pakistani companies to retool their operations to produce medical equipment.  Keeping in view the demand of such products around the world due to current situation, it will be a great move not only towards meeting the need to fight against COVID-19 but also generating revenue by consuming such products within Pakistan as well as abroad.

Dr. Bilal Siddiqui and Mr. Awais Tariq from Spell Petrochemicals have developed a face shield to be used to get protected from Corona Virus. Petro Chemicals are basically PVC compound and PVC additives manufacturers. They are scaling to produce 3,000 a day of these face shields which have a visor that can swing up and down.  This is an important initiative by Spell Petrochemicals Group and other manufacturers in Pakistan are expected to follow.