Liu Yang is an ordinary worker at the Shanghai factory of Foxconn. During this Spring Festival, due to the outbreak of the epidemic, he did not go home, but chose to stay in Shanghai.

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Liu Yang is an ordinary worker at the Shanghai factory of Foxconn. During this Spring Festival, due to the outbreak of the epidemic, he did not go home, but chose to stay in Shanghai. - DayDayNews

Author: Zhang Weiwei, editor of New Retail Business Review


"This is not only an emergency assistance across industries, but also a self-rescue."


On January 20, Academician Zhong Nanshan first confirmed that the new coronavirus had human-to-human transmission. 20 days have passed so far, and the battle against the new coronavirus has been escalated. Faced with the serious lack of masks, one of the important materials to fight the epidemic, China is now facing a severe battle to defend mask production.

After February entered, nearly 100 mask production lines across the country were launched one after another, from companies such as textiles, automobile manufacturing, and mobile phone production that have no connection with masks. is not only an emergency cross-industry aid, but also a self-rescue for these companies.


introduces mask production line across industries

Liu Yang (pseudonym) is an ordinary worker at Foxconn's Shanghai factory. During this Spring Festival, due to the outbreak of the epidemic, he did not go home, but chose to stay in Shanghai. The originally busy production line has not been restarted for a long time, which has almost become the longest holiday Liu Yang has spent in his three years working. The news that was constantly updated on

media made him vaguely worried. On February 1, Apple announced that it would temporarily close its domestic Apple direct retail stores in China until February 9. Whether it can open as scheduled is still unknown.

Apple's attitude affects Foxconn's fate - as the main production force of Apple mobile phones, domestic factory lines have been completely suspended. Among them, Foxconn's factories located around Zhengzhou and Shanghai are important production bases for the production of iPhone , and these two places are more than 500 kilometers away from Wuhan.

Nowadays, with workers reworking one after another, whether to restart the production line or continue to wait has become the key to testing the management capabilities of enterprises.

In addition to transferring part of the production capacity of iPhone9 to overseas OEM factories such as Vietnam, India and Mexico , Foxconn is planning to resume a small number of domestic production lines one after another, and to smoothly advance this plan, masks have become the key - to avoid large-scale cross-infection, all workers on the production line must wear masks.

"The masks in the factory are very tight." Liu Yang told Retail Jun that the masks that the factory can purchase can only supply a small number of workers on the production line. Workers without masks can only be on standby in the dormitory.

The total number of workers at Foxconn's Shanghai factory is expected to reach 200,000, and the number of workers in factories across the country is as many as one million, and it is difficult to solve the demand for masks through social channels.

htmlOn February 5, Foxconn's official WeChat official account announced that it would launch the production line to produce masks - the first mask production line was introduced in the group's Longhua Park, and trial production was achieved on February 5. This production line is expected to produce an average of 100,000 masks per day.

is expected to produce 2 million pieces per day by the end of February. "It will not only meet the epidemic prevention needs of the group's employees, but also actively support and export according to the situation."

"If workers can have masks, more production lines can be started." Although the masks produced by Foxconn are still in the process of qualification certification, a battle for self-rescue and defense has begun.

Liu Yang is an ordinary worker at the Shanghai factory of Foxconn. During this Spring Festival, due to the outbreak of the epidemic, he did not go home, but chose to stay in Shanghai. - DayDayNews

In fact, almost all industries in the country are in a dilemma of being difficult to find. "5,000, 20,000, 150,000..." In some Internet help platforms, from retail supermarkets, daily necessities, to window service industries, they have sent out information for help from masks, and it is difficult to be satisfied in a short period of time.

and , like Foxconn, has set a precedent for starting production and self-rescue companies.


The turn of the mask industry

enterprises produce masks across industries, and the scale and output cannot be underestimated.

htmlOn February 4, SAIC-GM-Wuling joined hands with its suppliers to renovate the factory, arrange dust-free workshop , and equip 12 mask production lines (4 production lines produce N95 masks, and 8 production general medical protective masks ).

According to the manufacturer's estimate, by the end of February, after the dust-free workshop is officially put into use, the daily production of masks is expected to reach 1.7 million.

This data is equivalent to the average daily output of domestic mask production counties.According to data from Changyuan City, Henan Province, the city of China's medical consumables, the city produces an average of 111.05 million html html, 35,000 medical protective masks, 562,000 disposable medical masks, and a total daily production of 1.65 million - slightly less than the estimated output of SAIC-GM-Wuling.

The traditional mask industry has always been considered a small profit industry. There have been media reports that through the dealer channel, the ex-factory price of ordinary medical masks is 9 cents each, and the ex-factory price of medical surgical masks is 40 cents to 40 cents each.

OEM companies have more profits. A mask factory in Jiangyin, Jiangsu Province once stated that the factory gave Japan 300 million OEM masks a year, each with a price of two cents, and each one earned less than five cents.

plus the price of raw materials has risen. The market price of meltblown fabric, a special filter material for masks, was originally 18,000 yuan/ton, but now the price is 29,000 yuan/ton, which is still difficult to find. This has led to insufficient production of many mask manufacturers, while they are still at a loss.

According to the China Consumers Association and the China Textiles Business Association, masks have never been a bulk reserve commodity. In the past few years, many mask manufacturers switched to production due to insufficient orders.

But in extraordinary times, the dilemma of these upstream and downstream supply chains is expected to be solved. Recently, at the press conference of the State Information Office, the National Development and Reform Commission made it clear that as long as the manufacturers are running at full capacity and as long as the products are qualified, the country will provide the most abundant production after the epidemic. is undoubtedly a great benefit for mask manufacturers.

Liu Yang is an ordinary worker at the Shanghai factory of Foxconn. During this Spring Festival, due to the outbreak of the epidemic, he did not go home, but chose to stay in Shanghai. - DayDayNews

Due to the policy, some enterprises have started full capacity production for 7 days and 24 hours a day. A production line has been increased to three times the original production capacity. Many surrounding companies have also begun to expand their production scope.

Hongdou Co., Ltd., which was originally engaged in the manufacturing, processing and sales of labor protection products, has added new Class I and II medical devices to its business scope.

More companies that produce masks across industries are working hard to break through the "medical license" - non- medical masks production enterprises, and can produce ordinary medical masks after completing purification, disinfection and other processes.

Haikou, Hainan, , Jiangshan , Sichuan Guang'an cross-border production enterprises are speeding up and building mask factories in 3 to 10 days. In terms of production, taking the newly built mask production line of a company in Jiangshan, Zhejiang as an example, the average daily production capacity is expected to reach 1.2 million, of which 1,000 sets of protective clothing have been shipped to the front line of the fight against the epidemic; a newly built mask factory in a company in Sichuan will also reach more than 40,000 per day.

According to industry insiders, the average cost of a mask production line is 1 million, which means that for these companies that produce masks across industries, it is not difficult to "guaranteed" as long as they solve problems such as manpower, raw materials, factories, etc.


The last link: The raw materials have

2: At 16:30 pm on February 6, Sinopec official Weibo posted a message: "I have meltblown cloth, who has a mask machine?" This message completed the entire supply chain closed loop of the production of masks across industries.

According to data released by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology on January 23, China's maximum production capacity of masks is currently 20 million pieces per day. However, when manpower and raw materials are limited, there is still a distance from the maximum production capacity.

Zhejiang, Shandong and Hebei are the three provinces with the largest number of mask companies in China, accounting for 52% of China's mask companies. However, these mask companies do not have sufficient reserves of important raw materials for producing medical masks like meltblown cloth, which has become an important reason for the insufficient mask production capacity.

A large-scale mask manufacturer from Henan revealed that to resume work, there is no shortage of workers now, only raw material meltblown fabric. The price of meltblown fabrics in the market has been rising again and again, but they are still very popular.

Meltblown cloth is commonly known as the "heart" of masks. It is the filter layer in the middle of the mask. It has good filterability, shielding, insulation and oil absorption. It is an important raw material for the production of masks. The raw material for meltblown fabrics and other nonwoven fabrics is polypropylene.

Liu Yang is an ordinary worker at the Shanghai factory of Foxconn. During this Spring Festival, due to the outbreak of the epidemic, he did not go home, but chose to stay in Shanghai. - DayDayNews

Now, Sinopec and Sinopec have actively proposed to supply raw materials meltblown fabrics, alleviating the urgent needs of a large number of enterprises. After Sinopec's Weibo was posted, it immediately attracted great attention and found a partner within 3 hours.

html At noon on February 7, Sinopec has connected with its partners to complete 11 mask production lines, and will soon enter the equipment installation program to help enterprises produce masks by renting production equipment.

It is expected that one mask production line will be in place on February 15; by the end of February, all 11 mask production lines will be in place; in early March, the average daily production scale is expected to reach 600,000 to 1 million.

At the same time, Sinopec will also provide meltblown cloth raw materials to three local mask manufacturers in Beijing, Jiangsu and Guangdong, and coordinate production equipment. Starting from February 9, these three companies will begin debugging and production, with a total of more than 235,000 masks per day.

undoubtedly, the additional supply of raw materials from Sinopec and PetroChina has become an important part of this battle to defend masks for many enterprises.



anti-epidemic is a systematic project. It not only needs to deal with the current epidemic and material supply, but also think about how to solve the imbalance of oversupply after the increase in production capacity.

Nowadays, with policy guarantees, mask production capacity will be fully stimulated and mobilized, which is good for front-line medical staff and ordinary people. At the same time, it also gave a good warning to the domestic industrial system: China's basic industry is sound, but masks, as important materials in extraordinary times, cannot be ignored.

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