Vietnam could become world’s face mask factory amid COVID-19

[Viva_Viet]

Cloth masks are useless for medical applications.

But good enough for normal ppl to prevent their droplet spreading after sneezing cos its anti droplet mask.

 

[casual]

Its just anti bacterial mask used to prevent droplet for nornal ppl, not for doctor cos most of corona virus is inside the droplet

ya they are better then nothing. but for doctors, nurses, and first responders you need n95(and equivalent) masks made from meltblown fabrics. Also, manual sewing of masks require too much labor and it's hard to do QA. Machine printed masks are more competitive.

 

[Viet]

Cloth masks are useless for medical applications.

Not all people are doctors and nurses who need n95 or ffp masks.
Cloth masks offer a layer of protection. Better than nothing. Here in Germany there is a extreme lack of masks.

ya they are better then nothing. but for doctors, nurses, and first responders you need n95(and equivalent) masks made from meltblown fabrics. Also, manual sewing of masks require too much labor and it's hard to do QA. Machine printed masks are more competitive.

Vietnam makes 40,000 n95 masks per day. It’s a matter of months to ramp up production.

 

[Viva_Viet]

ya they are better then nothing. but for doctors, nurses, and first responders you need n95(and equivalent) masks made from meltblown fabrics. Also, manual sewing of masks require too much labor and it's hard to do QA. Machine printed masks are more competitive.

Making anti bacterial masks is like part time jobs for those textile workers during the pademic.

Of course VN have factories making medical mask, the material import from CN and US ( US govt send materials making PPE to VN recently)



Hình minh họa.

 

[casual]

Not all people are doctors and nurses who need n95 or ffp masks.
Cloth masks offer a layer of protection. Better than nothing. Here in Germany there is a extreme lack of masks.


Vietnam makes 40,000 n95 masks per day. It’s a matter of months to ramp up production.

it's not that simple. meltblown fabrics requires complex machinery that is near impossible to acquire nowadays. you could import the meltblown fabric filter material but that's also getting more expensive and hard to come by. and the US really don't produce any of this stuff so it's useless to depend on the US.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/n95-mask-shortage-melt-blown-filters/

 

[xuxu1457]

Vietnam did a good job this time, 92million people only 255cases and 0 death.

best wishes from China, ignore troller， you know troller everywhere all over the world

 

[Stranagor]

BYD OPENS WORLD’S LARGEST FACE MASK MANUFACTURING PLANT


GLOBAL, PRESS RELEASE
March 13, 2020


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.



On February 8, the newly-built production lines in one of BYD’s industrial parks in Shenzhen started to produce these critical supplies, with hundreds of staff working both day and night shifts along with machines working around the clock.

In late January, BYD began to assist in the production of masks and disinfection gels to tackle the growing COVID-19 outbreak. A special task force was appointed by BYD Chairman and President Wang Chuanfu, consisting of leaders from different business divisions and more than 3,000 engineers involved in research and development, design, processing and other roles.

The task force moved with incredible speed, and in less than two weeks, it had finished work that normally takes two months to complete. It completed both the R&D and manufacturing process of mask production equipment within seven days, whereas on the market, it would normally take 15 to 30 days to fully manufacture a mask-producing machine. At the same time, BYD also completed the R&D of medical-grade hand sanitizers in six days, which were then shipped to medical staff on the front lines of the epidemic after just eight days.

BYD’s strong R&D capabilities, combined with its manufacturing facilities and creativity, have enabled the firm to mass-produce quality masks in a short period of time, reflecting its unremitting efforts throughout the epidemic. Mask production requires impeccably clean and sterile environments and equipment, and BYD’s dust-free rooms, previously used for the assembly of smartphones, are particularly well-suited for this. During the Spring Festival period, the company was unable to obtain mask-making equipment rapidly enough, so it set about making its own machines. BYD can now make more than a dozen of these machines a day.

“A production line for high-quality face masks requires about 1,300 parts for various gears, chains, and rollers, 90% of which are BYD’s self-made parts,” said Sherry Li, Director General of BYD’s President Office.

Since its founding, BYD has set up a specialized team to conduct R&D and manufacturing for its equipment, and the team has been engaged in the independent R&D and manufacturing of complex production lines and equipment, such as electronics, batteries and new energy vehicles. Its own machining centers, for example, have a variety of high-precision equipment like grinding machines and molds. This collection of hardware, along with the reserve of professional and technical manpower, has given BYD strong capabilities and rich experience in large-scale precision manufacturing over the years.

“For BYD’s electronics business, the high-end mobile phones that we produce have high requirements in terms of quality, waterproofing and other aspects. This also comes with our high standards for molds, automated equipment, manufacturing processes, and more,” said Zhao Jianping, General Manager of BYD’s Quality Division. “In other words, the equipment that we already have offers precision and quality that is much higher than what is commonly required to produce masks.”

According to the Chinese government’s quality inspection department, the quality of BYD’s masks is significantly better than similar masks in the industry.

As a multitude of orders have come after the company announced its production of masks and disinfectants, the most pertinent challenge was the rapid expansion of its production capacity to meet the demand for these much-needed items. With the company making about five to ten new mask-producing machines on a daily basis, the number of masks produced by BYD is increasing at a rate of approximately 300,000 to 500,000 units per day. It currently has a total production capacity of five million masks per day, which is equivalent to a quarter of China’s entire production capacity in early February.


https://en.byd.com/news-posts/byd-opens-worlds-largest-face-mask-manufacturing-plant/

 

[Viva_Viet]

BYD OPENS WORLD’S LARGEST FACE MASK MANUFACTURING PLANT


GLOBAL, PRESS RELEASE
March 13, 2020


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.



On February 8, the newly-built production lines in one of BYD’s industrial parks in Shenzhen started to produce these critical supplies, with hundreds of staff working both day and night shifts along with machines working around the clock.

In late January, BYD began to assist in the production of masks and disinfection gels to tackle the growing COVID-19 outbreak. A special task force was appointed by BYD Chairman and President Wang Chuanfu, consisting of leaders from different business divisions and more than 3,000 engineers involved in research and development, design, processing and other roles.

The task force moved with incredible speed, and in less than two weeks, it had finished work that normally takes two months to complete. It completed both the R&D and manufacturing process of mask production equipment within seven days, whereas on the market, it would normally take 15 to 30 days to fully manufacture a mask-producing machine. At the same time, BYD also completed the R&D of medical-grade hand sanitizers in six days, which were then shipped to medical staff on the front lines of the epidemic after just eight days.

BYD’s strong R&D capabilities, combined with its manufacturing facilities and creativity, have enabled the firm to mass-produce quality masks in a short period of time, reflecting its unremitting efforts throughout the epidemic. Mask production requires impeccably clean and sterile environments and equipment, and BYD’s dust-free rooms, previously used for the assembly of smartphones, are particularly well-suited for this. During the Spring Festival period, the company was unable to obtain mask-making equipment rapidly enough, so it set about making its own machines. BYD can now make more than a dozen of these machines a day.

“A production line for high-quality face masks requires about 1,300 parts for various gears, chains, and rollers, 90% of which are BYD’s self-made parts,” said Sherry Li, Director General of BYD’s President Office.

Since its founding, BYD has set up a specialized team to conduct R&D and manufacturing for its equipment, and the team has been engaged in the independent R&D and manufacturing of complex production lines and equipment, such as electronics, batteries and new energy vehicles. Its own machining centers, for example, have a variety of high-precision equipment like grinding machines and molds. This collection of hardware, along with the reserve of professional and technical manpower, has given BYD strong capabilities and rich experience in large-scale precision manufacturing over the years.

“For BYD’s electronics business, the high-end mobile phones that we produce have high requirements in terms of quality, waterproofing and other aspects. This also comes with our high standards for molds, automated equipment, manufacturing processes, and more,” said Zhao Jianping, General Manager of BYD’s Quality Division. “In other words, the equipment that we already have offers precision and quality that is much higher than what is commonly required to produce masks.”

According to the Chinese government’s quality inspection department, the quality of BYD’s masks is significantly better than similar masks in the industry.

As a multitude of orders have come after the company announced its production of masks and disinfectants, the most pertinent challenge was the rapid expansion of its production capacity to meet the demand for these much-needed items. With the company making about five to ten new mask-producing machines on a daily basis, the number of masks produced by BYD is increasing at a rate of approximately 300,000 to 500,000 units per day. It currently has a total production capacity of five million masks per day, which is equivalent to a quarter of China’s entire production capacity in early February.


https://en.byd.com/news-posts/byd-opens-worlds-largest-face-mask-manufacturing-plant/

And it will get 25++% tatiff from US after Covid over

 

[Viet]

it's not that simple. meltblown fabrics requires complex machinery that is near impossible to acquire nowadays. you could import the meltblown fabric filter material but that's also getting more expensive and hard to come by. and the US really don't produce any of this stuff so it's useless to depend on the US.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/n95-mask-shortage-melt-blown-filters/

Why US? Germany makes meltblown machines.


https://www.reicofil.com/en/pages/meltblown_lines

The lines
Survey on types.
Stand-alone meltblown
(with singlerow and/or multirow technology)

Inline meltblown
(with singlerow technology)

Combining REICOFIL

 

[casual]

Why US? Germany makes meltblown machines.


https://www.reicofil.com/en/pages/meltblown_lines

The lines
Survey on types.
Stand-alone meltblown
(with singlerow and/or multirow technology)

Inline meltblown
(with singlerow technology)

Combining REICOFIL

I was responding to the Viva_Viet who thought Vietnam could get supplies from US. It's not easy to get a meltblown line right now. Actually China makes most of these machines.

 

[ohmrlobalobayeh]

Vietnam just started. Increase by 10, from 8 million to 80 million face masks is just a small step. Making masks is not difficult.

Hahaha, nope- making medical-grade face masks IS difficult.

 

[Viva_Viet]

I was responding to the Viva_Viet who thought Vietnam could get supplies from US. It's not easy to get a meltblown line right now. Actually China makes most of these machines.

Not easy doesnt mean Impossible .US govt promise to help VN making N95 mask, and u try to think US govt can not do as they promise while they doctors need N95 much more VN now ??

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To promote international collaboration in dealing with Covid-19, Vietnam is speeding up technology transfers and partnering with the United States to produce medical equipment and face masks meeting the N95 standard, which can prevent 95% of micro particles from entering the nose and mouth area. These products will be exported to countries in need, including the United States.

https://defence.pk/pdf/threads/vietnam-to-ship-450-000-protective-suits-to-united-states.660533/

 

[casual]

Not easy doesnt mean Impossible .US govt promise to help VN making N95 mask, and u try to think US govt can not do as they promise while they doctors need N95 much more VN now ??

Do you really want me to list the times the US gov went back on their promises? I've take that promise with a bucket of salt.

 

[Beast]

They make cloth masks.

Nobody can compete with chinese superpower.

I hope Germany will ban all made in China masks.

In a year we don’t need your stuffs here.

I can understand your frustration of Vietnam incompetence in competition against China.

 

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Chinese made medical masks are going to be in high demand.