“It’s much easier to make masks than jeans.” Companies hit by the coronavirus pivot to products hospitals desperately need.
PARIS—Companies across the West, from a Kentucky distillery to a French bluejeans maker, are retooling to produce medical equipment for overloaded hospitals and slow the spread of the new coronavirus.
Christian Dior perfumes has started making hand sanitizer. A car-parts company is producing hygienic masks. Luxury hotels are becoming makeshift quarantine shelters. An earthmoving-equipment maker and other manufacturers are examining whether they can help make ventilators, the key life-support machines for people with pneumonia...
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