Workers volunteered to live in a factory for 28 days to produce millions of pounds of raw PPE materials to make masks and gowns for frontline medical workers
A worker shows the polypropylene used for producing nonwoven fabrics at the workshop of nonwoven producing company Beautiful Nonwoven in Foshan, south China's Guangdong Province, March 3, 2020.Forty-three workers at a petrochemical plant in Pennsylvania lived at their workplace for 28 days to produce 40 million pounds of polypropylene, a material used to make hygienic products such as face masks and surgical gowns.
The Pennsylvania plant and another Braskem plant in West Virginia produced 40 million pounds of the raw material over a 28-day period, which alone could be made into 500 million N95 masks or 1.5 billion surgical masks.Workers at a Pennsylvania petrochemical factory ended a nearly month-long "live-in" at their workplace to produce 40 million pounds of raw PPE material used to make masks and gowns for essential workers.
Representatives for Braskem America did not immediately respond to Business Insider's request for comment. "But we want to thank them for what they did and are continuing to do," he continued. "That's what made the time we were in there go by quickly, just being able to support them."The workers were paid for all 24 hours each day they lived in the factory, with "a built-in wage increase for both working hours and off time," The Post reported, citing Braskem America.
Soon enough, the plant became a self-sufficient household with workers falling into routines to cook and clean.
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