webfact Posted April 9, 2020 Share Posted April 9, 2020 CP ready to start producing masks now that materials have arrived By The Nation Charoen Pokphand Group (CP) said on Thursday (April 9) that the chartered flight from China carrying a mask-manufacturing machine and meltblown non-woven fibre has arrived in Thailand. CP imports first mask-making machine to beat shortages Recently CP’s senior chairman Dhanin Chearavanont said he has invested about Bt100 million to build a factory to produce surgical face masks for medical personnel and the general public. These masks will be distributed for free. CP officials said the import of the machine and material has been tough because countries are now competing for mask-manufacturing equipment because they need to fight their own Covid-19 battles. “Also, there are 70 per cent fewer flights to and from China and the flight schedules are not fixed. This is why CP had to charter a flight to ensure the material and the machine arrives in time,” a CP official said. CP reckons it will take about a week to assemble the production line and test the machine before full-blown production can begin. “As CP’s senior chairman has said before, the factory will be able to produce 100,000 masks per day or 3 million pieces per month,” the official said. The official added that the meltblown non-woven fibre is important because it serves as a barrier to viruses, adding that it is becoming more and more difficult to find this material and its price has risen 10-fold. Hence, the official said, CP has had to coordinate with its networks and partners worldwide to procure the material. “According to international production standards, a face mask has three layers – a green spunbound material with hydrophobic coating to make it waterproof, a white meltblown non-woven fibre to make it virus proof and a lining of white spunbound non-woven material,” the official added. Source: https://www.nationthailand.com/news/30385709 -- © Copyright The Nation Thailand 2020-04-10 Follow Thaivisa on LINE for breaking COVID-19 updates 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
meechai Posted April 9, 2020 Share Posted April 9, 2020 (edited) The CP guy is the only one in that photo wearing a real mask All the rest seem to be wearing the type that is coming off the machine That type is fairly useless as sides & around nose stay open as seen in same photos CP make a good pork burger though in 7/11 ???? Edited April 9, 2020 by meechai Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fforest1 Posted April 9, 2020 Share Posted April 9, 2020 What happened to the high speed train? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ben2talk Posted April 10, 2020 Share Posted April 10, 2020 1 hour ago, meechai said: The CP guy is the only one in that photo wearing a real mask All the rest seem to be wearing the type that is coming off the machine That type is fairly useless as sides & around nose stay open as seen in same photos CP make a good pork burger though in 7/11 ???? They aren't useless in interrupting the gas flows as people breathe out. With no masks, you're at risk within 2-3 metres of anyone breathing, and more for a cough... sneezes can infect up to 8 metres. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Venom Posted April 10, 2020 Share Posted April 10, 2020 Hopefully these masks will be effective as protection against the horrendous 2.5 PM air pollution generated by affiliated sino-thai agro businesses and effecting millions, but I doubt it. ☹️ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G950 Posted April 10, 2020 Share Posted April 10, 2020 Surgical type masks are being encouraged to be worn to slow down the spread of Covid not to stop self infection or to help with pollution. They do reduce the chance that someone who is possibly infected exhaling virus particles into the air and infecting someone else. This farang is fed up with other farangs coming right up to me, right in my face without a mask and asking some question. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
justin case Posted April 10, 2020 Share Posted April 10, 2020 3 months of crisis and government have not one brain cell to order some machines themselves... typical Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
natway09 Posted April 10, 2020 Share Posted April 10, 2020 CP would have paid for 6 of these machines last night with the unbelievable alcohol sales. Never mint all the close contact in the rush & cross contamination Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anto Posted April 10, 2020 Share Posted April 10, 2020 Thanks CP. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yourauntbob Posted April 10, 2020 Share Posted April 10, 2020 (edited) 20 hours ago, webfact said: The official added that the meltblown non-woven fibre is important because it serves as a barrier to viruses, adding that it is becoming more and more difficult to find this material and its price has risen 10-fold. Hence, the official said, CP has had to coordinate with its networks and partners worldwide to procure the material. I dont understand. Are they saying that a price spike (gouging) has lead to innovation and companies re-tooling to meet the demand in order to profit? And by doing so more goods and services of need are being produced for the people and entities that need them??????? <deleted>? I am continually told price gouging is WRONG! Edited April 10, 2020 by yourauntbob Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post plachon Posted April 10, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted April 10, 2020 There's no such thing as a free lunch (or mask), especially when a predatory company like CP is handing out them. They don't do charity, though they have a massive CSR programme. Everything is aimed at increasing the bottom line and they are masters at this game. Like going in a restaurant and being told the water and bread are "free", so long as you spend 400 baht. I rather suspect that CP will come out of this pandemic with a bigger market share in lots of products than they had going into it, which is massive right now in just about every sector you can think of, from farmed fish to phone cards. To the detriment of the population. ???? 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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