An Adelaide family business that makes fast-food packaging will deliver 145 million surgical masks for medics fighting coronavirus.
According to The Advertiser:
Detmold will make the masks at its Brompton factory, creating up to 160 new jobs…
Forty-five million of the masks will be quarantined for use by SA Health, and the remaining 100 million will go to the national stockpile to help with an expected rise of cases…
SA taxpayers will hand over $1.5 million to help with the purchase of new machines, as Detmold opens up new floor space to expand its factory…
Production is expected to begin in May and continue until the end of the year. Detmold expects to keep manufacturing medical supplies once this crisis passes.
Detmold executive chairman Rodney Detmold told The Advertiser his company would keep supplying current customers, including McDonald’s and KFC, with packaging as usual.
SA local business Detmold Group is diversifying & employing MORE people during the #Covid_19 crisis. The company will produce 145 million respirator & surgical masks to help protect our frontline heroes. Mask shortage sorted – from Adelaide with love https://t.co/oTx23zZftE
— Steven Marshall, MP (@marshall_steven) March 30, 2020
