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BYD Launches World’s Largest Face Mask Manufacturing Plant
As one of the biggest EV manufacturers, BYD engaged one of its industrial parks in Shenzhen, China to produce millions of face masks and disinfectants to support the fight with the COVID-19 outbreak. The company has developed the products and built the production lines, built from thousands of mostly in-house made parts within weeks. As a result, the facility is now the world’s largest mass-produced face masks plant with an output of 5 million masks and 300,000 bottles of disinfectants per day.
"Today, BYD is proud to announce that it has created the world’s largest mass-produced face masks plant. The plant is now running at full capacity and is able to produce 5 million masks and 300,000 bottles of disinfectants per day. This allows the firm to help alleviate severe shortages that have affected hospitals and agencies across China in the face of the global COVID-19 outbreak."
BYD was making 5 to 10 new mask-producing machines every day, which gradually increased the manufacturing capacity by 300,000 to 500,000 units per day. Now the total output is probably even higher since the press release was from March 13, 2020. It seems that a single machine can deliver 60,000 masks per day at full swing. Hopefully, they will expand to a level to support other countries as the rest of the world is starting the fight with coronavirus.
