Amcor sites across the world are giving back to their local communities
Innovation
April 8, 2020Reading time: 1 minutes
Healthcare workers and emergency services need face masks, goggles, coveralls and disposable clothing to help them bring the Covid-19 pandemic under control. Amcor colleagues across the world have stepped up to help.
Healthcare workers and emergency services need face masks, goggles, coveralls and disposable clothing to help them bring the Covid-19 pandemic under control. Amcor colleagues across the world have stepped up to help.
In Shelbyville, Kentucky, the local fire and rescue service was running low on masks to protect frontline responders. Thankfully, workers at Amcor Flexibles, based in Shelbyville, realised they could help thanks to a stock of N95 face masks on site. Amcor co-worker Andrew Rickard even personally went to each first responder team to drop off these potentially life-saving masks.
Operations Manager Jeff Salmon explains “We had masks for some time sitting in storage, we had more than we thought we did, so we gave 15 cases to the first responders and hospital workers. We’re very pleased we’re able to do it, to be able to serve our community.”
In Brazil, Amcor co-workers donated DuPont™ Tyvek® coveralls to their local hospital. Designed to provide protection against biological hazards, the specialist clothing such as medical gloves is perfect for helping to keep health workers safe from the virus.
Across the border in Argentina, Amcor co-workers developed an ingenious way of helping fight the pandemic with scrap plastic. The material, which is produced during the creation of bottles, is being collected by local companies, treated and then used by Cotnyl, a manufacturer of facial protection equipment, to help fulfil rising demand.
Also in Argentina, the Amcor team worked with the Argentine government to supply 30,000 bottles for hand sanitiser – enough for each household in the Ushuaia community.
Across Europe, Amcor flexibles sites in Logrono, Spain, and in Selestat, France, have donated hundreds of pieces of protective equipment to local medical centres.
We have donated much needed money to the China Health Organisation and are now hoping to produce 1.5m masks per month.
Amcor, a manufacturer of medical plastic packaging supplies, helped medical workers in the aftermath of the Sichuan earthquake by temporarily bringing out of storage eight medical gown-making machines that had been previously acquired in China and putting them back into production so that medical PPE supplies could be manufactured quickly. The original manufacturer of the machines, BPI in the United Kingdom, refurbished the idle machines and put them back into production to help provide medical PPE supplies for the victims of the earthquake.
Find out more about how Amcor is responding to Covid-19.
