BMW Begins Producing Face Masks
April 08 2020 - 8:23AM
Dow Jones News
By Jessica Sier
BMW AG will begin producing ventilation masks to protect staff
and the public from the spread of the coronavirus, said the company
on Wednesday.
The German car manufacturer plans to produce several hundred
thousand masks per day and has handed over 2 million medical-grade
gloves and 50,000 masks to the Bavarian state government.
The company will also donate one million medical-grade masks in
the next two to three weeks, BMW said in a statement.
Due to the continuing pandemic, BMW said earlier this week that
it would extend its production suspension at its main plants by
another two weeks until April 30. The extension applies to plants
in Europe, South Africa, the U.S. and Mexico, as well as BMW's
motorcycle plant in Germany.
Write to Jessica Sier at jessica.sier@wsj.com
(END) Dow Jones Newswires
April 08, 2020 08:08 ET (12:08 GMT)
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