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COUNTERING COVID 2.0
Overdrive
|May 2021
The Indian auto industry has stepped up to fight COVID19 in India again
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The Indian auto industry has stepped up again to fight the much more lethal second COVID19 wave sweeping through the country. The industry had put its engineering and manufacturing expertise to use last year in manufacturing PPEs and ventilators last year but with those supplies in control now, managing the tragic shortages in oxygen and medical equipment have been the focus of initiatives.
Maruti Suzuki
The company has enforced an extended plant shut down across its facilities and will divert the small amount of oxygen it uses during manufacturing towards medical use. Maruti has also tied up with two firms that manufacture oxygen generation plants in the NCR region to boost these firms’ outputs and help meet the heavy demand for these plants. It will work with local supply chain partners to ramp up outputs of oxygen generation plants by upto 10 times. Maruti Suzuki will also procure these oxygen generation plants from these firms and donate them.
Hyundai
This story is from the May 2021 edition of Overdrive.
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