Data released by the National Development and Reform Commission in early March shows that the daily production capacity and output of masks in China have continued to increase rapidly, and both have exceeded 100 million. More and more companies are increasing the daily output of masks by expanding capacity, increasing production, and changing production.

Since the beginning of March, Sinopec Beijing Petroleum Branch has started selling masks at 50 gas stations in Beijing. Consumers can make reservations as long as they choose the gas station with the desired intention on their mobile phones. You can buy 10 masks at a time. Consumers who do not want to refuel can also make reservation purchases in this way.

The masks sold at Sinopec's gas stations have now increased from 30,000 daily petrol stations to 180,000 today, and the purchase restrictions have been lifted, and the daily volume will continue to rise in the future. A gas station in Beijing has sold nearly 40,000 masks since March 3.

Sinopec sells masks online. Sinopec sells masks, which originated from the meltblown cloth they produced. The reason why Sinopec can produce meltblown non-woven fabrics is that after smelting petroleum, a substance called polypropylene can be produced. It is a super antiviral material. When polypropylene is sent to a modified plastic factory, it will It can be processed into a special material for meltblown non-woven fabrics. This special material is sent to the meltblown non-woven fabric factory to produce a core layer of masks to resist viruses-meltblown non-woven fabrics.

Meltblown cloth production line

In early March, in a production workshop of Sinopec Beijing Yanshan Petrochemical Company, two meltblown non-woven fabric production lines were produced at the same time. The staff in the workshop poured a bag of polypropylene into the raw material input port, and after blowing and heating, At the other end of the production line, two huge meltblown heads continuously ejected white fibers. These filaments instantly condense into a white cloth, and then passed through a reel and slit to form a bundle of qualified meltblown cloths.

Yanshan Petrochemical's two meltblown non-woven fabric production lines have now entered full-day operation, and can produce 6 tons of meltblown fabrics every day. Who would have thought that in mid-February, this was just an old warehouse, and by March 6, qualified meltblown cloth could be produced here. In order to complete the task within the scheduled 15-day construction period, the construction staff soared from more than 200 people to the thousand-person battle.

Meltblown non-woven fabric production line construction site, the construction of the factory's infrastructure has begun, the word spread on the site: 36 hours is a normal shift, 48 hours is overtime. In the 11-day construction operation, some workers did not even leave for a day After this, I was tired for a while on the construction site, and then immediately returned to work. After 12 days and nights of continuous fighting, on March 6, 23:59:56, in the western suburbs of Beijing, Sinopec's Yanshan Petrochemical Plant, the Yanshan Petrochemical meltblown non-woven fabric production line was successfully driven to produce qualified products.

Yanshan Petrochemical Meltblown Nonwoven Fabric Production Line As of March 26, Yanshan Petrochemical has produced more than 100 tons of meltblown cloth, which can be used to produce 100 million medical flat masks. These meltblown cloths are being continuously transported to downstream mask manufacturers.

Beijing United Kangli Medical Protective Products Co., Ltd. has been producing overtime masks from the end of January to the present. Currently, it has produced a total of 15 million disposable medical masks and 300,000 N95 masks. In fact, their initial production capacity did not exceed 100,000. After the government helped them introduce new automation equipment, Sinopec's meltblown cloth solved the problem of their shortage of raw materials.

Mask production

At the end of March, the company had switched to ten new production lines, and the number of workers had also grown from 20 in early February to 50 now. About 400,000 surgical surgical masks and 3-40000 N95 masks can be produced every day. In recent days, this company has ordered 5 more mask machines. As the new crown pneumonia epidemic continues to spread overseas, overseas orders are coming in one after another, and they must quickly prepare for product exports.

New mask production line

In Yanshan Petrochemical, the construction of the second phase of the meltblown nonwoven fabric production plant has also started. It is expected that the output of the second phase is the same as that of the first phase, which can produce 6 tons of meltblown cloth every day. In the future, they also plan to enter the middle and lower reaches and open up the entire industrial chain of mask production.

Meltblown cloth second phase plant construction

In Jiangsu Yizheng Chemical Fiber, 12 meltblown cloth production lines are also under construction, and it is expected that all production lines can be completed and put into operation by the end of May. After all these 12 production lines are put into production, they can produce 18 tons of medical flat mask raw materials every day, and these raw materials can produce 18 million disposable medical masks.

Jiangsu Yizheng Chemical Fiber Meltblown Cloth Production Line

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China is a big mask-producing country, with an annual output of about 50% of the world. Before the outbreak, China's largest daily production capacity of masks was more than 20 million. However, as the bottlenecks in production capacity have been broken, and the shortcomings have been filled up, the daily production capacity of China's masks is increasing rapidly. Right now, with the increase in the number of patients diagnosed with new coronary pneumonia worldwide, the shortage of masks is becoming more and more prominent. In addition to protecting domestic supplies, Chinese mask manufacturers are also undertaking more and more overseas orders. These Chinese-made masks will build a powerful "shield" for the global fight against the new crown pneumonia epidemic. "Solving the global" mask shortage "is inseparable from Chinese manufacturing

Source: CCTV Finance "Economic Half Hour"