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More than 40 employees lived at their plant for 28 days to make material to protect health care workers
(CNN)Workers at a Pennsylvania manufacturing plant got to clock out and go home for the first time in almost a month after a marathon effort to make material needed for personal protective medical equipment.
More than 40 employees volunteered to spend 28 days at the Braskem America plant in Marcus Hook, near Philadelphia, to make polypropylene -- a raw material needed to make N95 masks, medical gowns and other protective gear, CNN affiliate WPVI reported. They went home on Sunday.
Braskem set up the live-in rotation to "to help ensure the health and safety of our team members who are working as an essential service throughout this crisis to keep these key supply lines running," the company said in a news release.
The plant makes 771 million pounds of polypropylene each year, according to the company's website.
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Hekate
(90,673 posts)SheltieLover
(57,073 posts)Awesome commitment to help!
Is the punchline here that the pResident of the United States confisgated what was produced to ensure suffering, death, and his personal profit?
DENVERPOPS
(8,817 posts)I wouldn't doubt it. Given what he has demonstrated throughout this crisis, would anyone think any differently?????????/
SheltieLover
(57,073 posts)Win/win for dump & repukes. They get to kill people & make tons of money. Wait, where have we seen that before....
NoMoreRepugs
(9,417 posts)Glimmer of Hope
(5,823 posts)lpbk2713
(42,757 posts)Now the hell of it is ... they can't go out and celebrate their
accomplishment. They have to stay penned up at home.
SammyWinstonJack
(44,130 posts)malaise
(268,967 posts)scarletwoman
(31,893 posts)Kaiserguy
(740 posts)these men and women did what they had to do to protect all of us. Great job folks
Hermit-The-Prog
(33,337 posts)niyad
(113,284 posts)BamaRefugee
(3,483 posts)kacekwl
(7,016 posts)By the way anyone know how many masks pillow man has delivered ?
jmowreader
(50,557 posts)The company has plants in at least Pennsylvania, Texas and West Virginia, and all three plants did it.
And just so you know: the company gave the workers an increase in wages, beds, kitchens, groceries, Internet access, and iPads. Very classy.
As to the assertion that Trump confiscated the material the plant made: he probably did, or at least tried to, but he would have waited until after it was turned into PPE. It's worth more to him as finished goods.
iluvtennis
(19,852 posts)professionals are very thankful.
GopherGal
(2,008 posts)The families who didn't see their loved ones for a month made this possible.
MLAA
(17,288 posts)Bernardo de La Paz
(49,001 posts)Tanchick
(4 posts)Braskem America plant in Marcus Hook, Thank you from bottom of my heart!! You folks are angels !!
SMC22307
(8,090 posts)and I hope these men and women vote with eyes wide open about the POS currently in the White House. Social media and some on DU like to trash the WWC, but we need these voters.
catrose
(5,065 posts)demigoddess
(6,640 posts)No words beautiful enough to describe them and their work.
orangecrush
(19,546 posts)gademocrat7
(10,656 posts)Your efforts in this endeavor are greatly appreciated.
littlemissmartypants
(22,647 posts)Blue Owl
(50,356 posts)MFGsunny
(2,356 posts)Joinfortmill
(14,417 posts)burrowowl
(17,639 posts)Not empty hulks like tRump!
crickets
(25,969 posts)benfranklin1776
(6,445 posts)Their selfless sacrifice stands in stark counterpoint to Agent Oranges relentless criminal, self enriching, self aggrandizing travesty. Going forward they are the example to emulate if America is to realize its potential True Greatness again.
tblue37
(65,340 posts)ProfessorGAC
(65,010 posts)It's a HIGHLY reactive process & precision to meet very stringent specifications requires GREAT focus & attention by operators.
It's automated, but every deviation alarm needs to be addressed RIGHT F'N NOW!
Staying there for 28 days with that kind of mental effort is heroic!