March 27 20
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SONIX IS ALREADY MAKING MASKS AND HAND SANITIZER

Solicited by several hospitals in need of supplies, Sonix has suspended its regular production and is making masks. Even its R&D department, usually dedicated to nanotechnology, is producing hand sanitizer.

“We have been getting countless requests from several places asking for help and exposing really urgent situations where frontline staff (doctors, nurses, auxiliaries and firefighters) are in serious need of clothing”, states the group via facebook, adding that “we are contributing inasmuch as it is possible to us, but we know that every effort is still not enough”.

As an internal policy, Sonix had been, since last week, manufacturing masks that now all its employees are using as protection. According to Conceição Dias, the leader of the group, after the “desperate” pleas on behalf of hospitals in Braga, Porto and Barcelos, it was decided that they would redirect their productive line to respond to those requests.

Faced with the foreseeable difficulties, in the same facebook statement the company appeals to cooperation. “We reaffirm the request for all companies and textile professionals that can help in any way (labour, raw material, etc.) as to mitigate the current crisis and provide, as much as you can, better conditions for these HEROES that fight every single day to save us from the tragedy we are currently living”, reads the post.

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