Almost everyone wears masks Taipei the streets
After the outbreak of the new crown virus, there was a wave of global rush to buy masks, and then manufacturers in China, Japan, India, TW and other places actively increased the capacity of masks, because the outbreak of a "mask war" has been staged everywhere.
Mask exports were banned at the end of TW government 1 month, but production still fell short of demand, so the mask factory was forced to requisition and invested a lot of money and manpower to produce masks invested to produce the mask, while the government announced efforts to become the world`s second-largest mask producer by mid-March as the outbreak adjusted measures. The British Broadcasting Corporation Chinese by combing the TW mask policy, as well as through the mask manufacturer`s statement, to analyze how mask famine occurred? How the world`s second-largest production of TW, masks will be with just over 23 million people.
government "collection of masks
"I thought it was a fraud group when I got a call from economic department to collect the factory! "Huang Huifeng, chairman of Zhaohui Company, which makes medical supplies and is located in Jiayi, TW, told The British Broadcasting Corporation in Chinese that when he learned that government was going to levy a mask, he thought it was a fraud, so he quickly asked if there was any official document, and the next day government the official came with it. When the outbreak of new coronary pneumonia, the Ministry of TW economic announced on January 24 to suspend the export of masks, giving priority to the supply of TW internal demand, about a week later, January 31 announced the requisition of all mask factories, unified management of the distribution and production of masks, at that time each mask sold NT $6(RMB 1.3 yuan), the purchase limit of 3 tablets per person, triggered a rush to buy. Starting from February 6, the purchase of masks must be based on documents, the implementation of the real name system to buy. The price of the mask was reduced to NT $5(RMB 1.1) and sold only at the Drug Administration, gradually reducing grievances.
TW new north city queue to buy masks
Huang Huifeng breathed a sigh of relief when he learned that government had imposed masks, which had reduced many problems. He told The British Broadcasting Corporation in chinese that many middlemen had increased orders and even rented large trucks to carry goods when the outbreak broke out, but his capacity wasn`t that much. A lot of other relatives and friends will have a purchase demand ," government a mask, so that I do not have to face these human pressure. "
Surprisingly, almost all manufacturers of TW masks have expressed satisfaction with the government "policy of imposing masks ". The British Broadcasting Corporation journalist learned that the current market for TW masks is roughly, the production cost of a piece of medical masks is about NT $1(about RMB 0.2), the price sold to the Chinese traders is about NT $1.5(about RMB 0.34), government is levied at NT $2.5(about RMB 0.58). Mask profits are weak, TW the mask industry has moved to china, so far up to 90% of the masks are dependent on imports. But some factories have complained about the government`s levy policy, arguing that the collection of compressed profits, although not at a loss but very little profit.
As the TW government announced the imposition of masks until the end of April, some mask manufacturers also expressed dissatisfaction. Huaxin medical materials group commissioner xu zhiyuan told the media that cards in the domestic order has accumulated tens of millions of pieces, if government continue to requisition, in addition to the existing order manufacturers can not account, also dare not take new orders. While there were complaints from manufacturers, mr huang told The British Broadcasting Corporation in chinese that a few firms wishing to take advantage of the rise in the epidemic might have a backlash, but he stressed that most were "satisfied" with government policy.
TW mask culture
Huang huifeng, who has worked in the mask-related industry for about 30 years, said that the most needed masks for TW are cotton masks based on warmth, which are usually more needed in winter and used by cyclists in the face of air pollution.
The history of the mask in Hui Shuo TW can find that people have established basic medical knowledge TW the period of daily treatment. For example, TW epidemic meningitis in the 1920s, the public health leaflet at the time warned that "because the Tainan area is endemic, please note ". Show that the use of masks at that time has been an important concept of epidemic prevention. At that time, the press also appeared a number of letters, reports, and even comic books about wearing masks.
Beginning on 6 February, the TW must purchase masks on the basis of documents and in real names
When the outbreak of SARS in 2003, TW people bought masks, the demand for medical masks began to increase. This time in the face of the new crown virus, TW again appeared panic type of rush. According to industry estimates, about 2 million to 3 million people TW wearing masks each day in the past, and now at least 10 million people a day, more than three times as often.
Who is raising the price?
TW government collecting masks and controlling their prices, there are still people selling them on the Internet at twice the price. Huang believes that the price increase should be in the middle and lower reaches. He explained that the main ingredients for disposable medical masks were three layers of non-woven fabric, including the outermost anti-poop layer, the melt-blown non-woven fabric of the intermediate filter virus, and the innermost layer of the perspiration water. "Because TW small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are so large that they have so many factories producing these nonwovens and are well supplied that they did not raise prices during the epidemic, it is in the middle and lower reaches that he estimates. "
TW "The largest supplier of meltblown nonwovens" is Mincheng Co., Ltd., located in Taoyuan, which has not shut down for 24 hours since the start of work on January 30, producing an average of 5 tons of nonwoven filter material per day, providing 5 million pieces of masks per day from the medical mask factory and saying that foreign masks factory has been politely rejected.
TW government stressed that the relevant mask materials are TW produced and should be supplied safely by June. However, China`s mainland situation is different, the price is due to the increased costs of making masks, so manufacturers do not actually make money. According to local media reports, as the mask became a must, the price of the mask machine also rose, from 100,000 yuan a year ago to 500,000 a year ago, plus rework workers due to special stages of rework, the salary is also higher than usual, resulting in the mask production costs are several times higher.
Buy machines and increase production lines
TW authorities spent NT $180 million to purchase 60 machines to make masks, combined with the industry has sent hundreds of professional manpower to the factory to assist. economic ministry estimates that more than 60 new production lines, combined with existing capacity, are expected to produce more than 10 million TW masks a day, a goal that, once achieved, will jump to the world`s second-largest mask producer, after china. The workers at the mask factory in Jiayi are busy, constantly putting the masks on the machine table into boxes and packing. At present, the company has a production line and three machines, send three operators, two shifts a day, a total of 16 hours of continuous operation, to ensure adequate production. Huang Huifeng also said :" It has been urgent to recruit operators, training quickly can work. Furthermore, it was stated that the government would provide a machine with military and human assistance to produce 1 million masks in the past month and 3 million in the next month after an additional production line.
TW government sent troops to help make masks, fighting for the second-largest middle class in the world in March
TW government agreed with the manufacturer that each machine must produce at least 5 million masks to government ,120 million pieces free of charge, and the remaining 3.8 million pieces, government purchased at 2.5 yuan per piece, will be free of charge to the manufacturer. government in addition to TW, are also actively increasing mask capacity. As the world`s largest supplier of masks,
The chinese mainland has already produced more than 100 million masks a day, and even foxconn, an apple-based factory, has already produced and delivered 4 million masks, TW hon hai group told the media. According to Japanese media reports, Japan is expanding the capacity of masks, and is expected to produce more than 600 million masks a month in March. Japan`s Ministry of economic Industry told the media that only 30 percent of Japan`s domestic sales of masks are made in Japan, and another 70 percent are made in China and re-imported to Japan. Moreover, French President Macron announced in a Twitter letter on March 3 that the government began collecting all existing stocks and future production of masks to ensure that they were left to patients and medical staff.
Doubts about overproduction
As a result of the new crown outbreak, the past lack of people in the mask industry has become popular overnight, demand has increased, but if the future of the epidemic to ease, such a huge production and new mask machine where to go?
Huang Huifeng, who engaged in medical consumables for more than 30 years, recalled that when the outbreak of SARS in 2003, many mask factories TW made great efforts to increase production lines, and then the outbreak suddenly eased, resulting in a pile of mask factories overcapacity, products can not be sold, and finally closed down, and said :" mask manufacturers should have learned from the experience of the SARS of the year! "Huang Huifeng explained that this time the mask factory, if only do domestic demand, the easing of the epidemic may be affected by income. But if there is export can continue production.
He stressed :" Additional machines are given away by the government, and if the epidemic abates, at most they will not be produced and will not lose money. "Face mask manufacturers appear to be the" beneficiaries "of the epidemic, but Huang Huifeng still wants the epidemic to slow down quickly, he revealed that the raw materials of medical gauze are in China mainland, if the industrial shutdown will have a very large global impact ," unimaginable ".
TW the workers of the mask factory put the masks on the machine in boxes and boxes
