日韩精品久久一区二区三区_亚洲色图p_亚洲综合在线最大成人_国产中出在线观看_日韩免费_亚洲综合在线一区

Global EditionASIA 中文雙語Fran?ais
Business
Home / Business / Companies

Home appliance makers help fight virus

By Fan Feifei | China Daily | Updated: 2020-03-25 09:48
Share
Share - WeChat
Employees make surgical masks at a Gree production facility in Zhuhai, Guangdong province, on March 12. [Photo by Zhong Fan/For China Daily]

Major manufacturers leverage automation tech to increase supply of masks and protective suits

Major Chinese home appliance manufacturers have accelerated their steps to tap into the healthcare industry by producing masks, protective suits and disinfection equipment, along with deploying robots and automation technology in major hospitals in Wuhan as part of a broader push to help combat the novel coronavirus outbreak.

Industry insiders said marching into the health and medical equipment sector will help Chinese home appliance enterprises resist operational risks and open up new profit growth points, as the COVID-19 outbreak has affected the supply of raw materials and sales in brick-and-mortar stores.

The country's largest air conditioner maker Gree Electric Appliances Inc plans to invest 1 billion yuan ($141.2 million) to make high-end medical equipment. The company has begun manufacturing N95 surgical masks and ordinary masks earlier this month. A total of 1 to 2 million pieces of masks are expected to be made daily when all its plants start mass production by the end of March.

Consumers can reserve these masks through a WeChat mini-program through the Dong Mingzhu Store, the name of the Zhuhai, Guangdong province-based company's charismatic chairwoman and president. About 100,000 masks are sold each day.

In order to satisfy the surging demand for masks and help contain the outbreak, Zhuhai Gejian Medical Science & Technology, a subsidiary of Gree, was established on Feb 18 with a total investment of 20 million yuan.

"We can produce more than 150,000 masks daily with two manual and six automatic production lines," said Fan Qingqing, executive deputy general manager of Gejian, adding about 1 million masks will be made each day with the enhancement of their production capacity.

Apart from masks, Gejian also produces mask-making machines, goggles, thermodetectors, air purifiers and other protective equipment.

Separately, Midea Group has also entered the healthcare sector. A batch of Swisslog autonomous robots owned by German industrial giant Kuka, which was taken over by Midea in 2016, has been used in the hospitals of Wuhan, capital of Hubei province and the former epicenter of the outbreak.

They will help deliver medical supplies, equipment and food to relieve the burden felt by frontline medical personnel. In 2016, Midea acquired Kuka to boost its competence in the robotics sector.

The whole home appliance industry has been plunged into the gloom by the epidemic. According to Beijing-based consultancy All View Cloud or AVC, the sales of air conditioners, refrigerators and washing machines will fall 35.2 percent, 28.3 percent and 25.1 percent respectively on a year-on-year basis in the first quarter.

"China's medical equipment industry maintained a 20 percent annual average growth rate in recent years. With the expansion of China's aging population, the healthcare and medical equipment sector will witness robust growth," said Zhao Meimei, general manger of the white goods department at AVC.

"It is no surprise that home appliance enterprises are optimistic about the prospects and have a foothold in the healthcare industry," Zhao said, adding it is also a good opportunity to enhance the visibility and influence of enterprises and attract more customers.

The first fully automatic mask production line that is powered by COSMOPlat, an industrial internet platform developed by China's largest home appliance maker Haier, went into operation in Houma, Shanxi province, in February. A total of 100,000 masks were made every day.

Haier's subsidiary, Haier Biomedical, designs, manufactures and sells low-temperature storage equipment for biomedical samples. The firm has donated ultra-low temperature refrigerators, refrigerated containers for medicine and bio-safety cabinets to medical institutions in Wuhan.

Dongguan Konka Electronic Technology Co, a subsidiary of Konka Group Co Ltd, is capable of producing 100,000 masks daily since March 10, a report from the China Business Network said.

Liang Zhenpeng, an independent consumer electronics analyst, said making masks and medical protective equipment is a lucrative business in the short term. But in the long run, household appliance enterprises should not expand production capacity blindly to avoid a backlog when the epidemic ends.

Top
BACK TO THE TOP
English
Copyright 1995 - . All rights reserved. The content (including but not limited to text, photo, multimedia information, etc) published in this site belongs to China Daily Information Co (CDIC). Without written authorization from CDIC, such content shall not be republished or used in any form. Note: Browsers with 1024*768 or higher resolution are suggested for this site.
License for publishing multimedia online 0108263

Registration Number: 130349
FOLLOW US
CLOSE
 
主站蜘蛛池模板: 日韩a在线看免费观看视频 五月天激情视频在线观看 成人97在线观看免费高清 | 国产成人一区二区三区 | 国产丝袜在线 | 美女污污视频网站 | 欧美精品色 | 国产精品19禁在线观看2021 | 免费看特黄特黄欧美大片 | 日日摸夜夜添免费毛片小说 | 亚洲视频 在线观看 | 午夜影院在线观看视频 | 欧洲免费在线视频 | 日韩精品一区二区三区中文在线 | 亚洲成人福利网站 | 久久国产欧美日韩精品 | 青娱乐免费视频在线观看 | 成人做爽爽爽爽免费国产软件 | 精品国产青草久久久久福利 | 97成人精品 | www.小视频| 欧美第一区 | 欧美国产精品一区 | 国产一区二区不卡 | 欧美啊啊啊 | 精品午夜久久网成年网 | 国产馆精品推荐在线观看 | 日韩欧美h | 成人午夜电影在线播放网站 | 日日夜夜婷婷 | 国内精品视频在线观看 | 亚洲日本色 | 精品在线一区二区三区 | 色爱激情网 | 91观看| 91国色 | 色老师 | 三级成人在线 | 国产成人无码区免费内射一片色欲 | 亚洲91在线| 日本黄色网址大全 | 亚洲人在线视频 | av国产精品 |