Exxon Mobil Plans to Make 5 Million Bottles of Hand Sanitizer
April 24 2020 - 8:46AM
Dow Jones News
By Dave Sebastian
Exxon Mobil Corp. said it is shifting its Louisiana operations
to make hand sanitizer in response to the Covid-19 pandemic,
targeting 160,000 gallons of sanitizer that are enough to fill
nearly five million four-ounce bottles.
The energy company on Friday said it would donate the sanitizer
to Covid-19 response efforts in Louisiana, New Jersey, New Mexico,
New York, Pennsylvania and Texas.
Exxon Mobil said it has upped its monthly production of
isopropyl alcohol, a key sanitizer ingredient, by about 3,000 tons
at its Baton Rouge, La., chemical manufacturing facility. To make
and distribute the sanitizer, the company said it bought more
ingredients and modified equipment in Baton Rouge and at a
lubricants plant in Port Allen, La.
The company joins other businesses, such as Verizon
Communications Inc. and Xerox Holdings Corp., that have turned to
making sanitizer amid the pandemic.
Write to Dave Sebastian at dave.sebastian@wsj.com
(END) Dow Jones Newswires
April 24, 2020 08:31 ET (12:31 GMT)
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