News / Factories switch production to boost medical supplies to fight Covid-19

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Growing numbers of companies are changing tack, shelving production of normal wares to make hand sanitiser and other medical products.

Some forwarders, meanwhile, are offering to ship them.

French luxury group LVMH has switched its luxury perfumes for sanitiser, while small gin distilleries across the UK and Ireland and France’s Pernod Ricard have also stepped in as alcohol supplies in Europe dwindle.

Flow Water Technologies has offered to supply the Cyprus government with disinfectant free of charge, after it ramped up production of disinfectant ...