Posted on 03/31/2020 9:16:57 PM PDT by Morgana
Dow’s Union Carbide subsidiary in South Charleston has joined the war against the spread of COVID-19 by producing industrial scale quantities of hand sanitizer for free distribution to health care systems and government agencies.
The first production batch of South Charleston-produced hand sanitizer is expected to be ready to be released for packaging Wednesday, according to Tim O’Neal, vice president and site director for Dow’s Union Carbide subsidiary.
The sanitizer will be packaged by Total Distribution, Inc., of Nitro, and distributed by the West Virginia National Guard to health care workers and first responders across the state, O’Neal said.
The South Charleston plant is one of four Dow units that began producing hand sanitizer this week, following consultation with state and federal regulators to obtain the needed permits and licenses. Dow officials also met with public health officials in areas near the four plants to assess how much of the product was needed.
Other plants recently starting sanitizer production include Dow’s Auburn, Michigan, operation, and Dow manufacturing sites near Seneffe, Belgium, and Hortolandia, Brazil. A Dow plant in Stade, Germany, had been producing hand sanitizer for donation at an earlier date.
In full production, the Dow facilities will be capable of producing the equivalent of 880,000 eight-ounce bottles of hand sanitizer per week. Production is expected to last for about four weeks, with an assessment to be made at the end of that period to determine how much additional sanitizer is needed.
While Dow does not typically produce hand sanitizer, most of the raw materials needed for producing it are in stock at the participating facilities, according to O’Neal. At the South Charleston plant, “we have reallocated an existing production asset to make the hand sanitizer to help meet the critical need,” he said.
O’Neal credited his company’s local operations team with quickly responding to the shortage of much-needed hand sanitizer, and praised the efforts of first responders, health care workers and others on the front lines of the COVID-19 suppression effort, who will receive the product free of charge.
West Virginia comes through again!
Mylan Corp in West Virginia is ramping up production of hydroxychloroquine.
OK, so long as it’s not Bhopal.
Good friend works for Mylan.
No worries on Americans at this plant. No Indians to sabatoge the tank
The company that caused Bhopal was completely Indian-Managed.
“The company that caused Bhopal was completely Indian-Managed.”
Yes and we should have learned then to make it in America and not outsource it!
Now we have China sending us their disease as well as their cheap items
Oh I know, I just couldn't resist the opportunity for some morbid humor.
Several distillers and biofuels companies have been making huge amounts of sanitizer and giving it away.
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