General Motors has announced it will produce up to 9 million face masks at a manufacturing facility in the Mexican state of Toluca as part of its efforts to fight the COVID-19 pandemic.
GM will begin producing the Level 1 surgical masks later this month and will distribute a portion of them to public hospitals located in Mexico City and the San Luis PotosÃ, Guanajuato and Coahuila states, where the company currently has various manufacturing and business operations. The rest of the masks will be used by GM employees and its local distributors.
“For General Motors, it has been a priority to support the communities that need it most during the almost 85 years we have been in Mexico,” said GM de Mexico President and CEO, Francisco Garza, in a translated statement. “For this reason, we are very interested in contributing to the battle against the COVID-19 pandemic in our country and in supporting first-line doctors and nurses whom we recognize for their great effort to save lives in the face of pressing circumstances.”
“I am very proud of the group of employees who decided to participate to support us in this work, we are guaranteeing them maximum hygiene care to prevent any risk of contagion,” Garza added.
The face masks will be built in a facility that normally manufactures GM’s turbocharged 1.5L four-cylinder engine, which is used in the Chevrolet Equinox and GMC Terrain, among other vehicles. About 1.5 million of the masks will roll off the line monthly over a 6 month period, it says.
GM says it is also looking at manufacturing other types of masks with greater protection than the Level 1 masks at the facility. It is currently searching for additional raw material to do this, however, which is in short supply as the world scrambles to get frontline healthcare workers the proper PPE.
GM is also making millions of face masks for American hospitals and its American workers at a facility in Michigan as part of its COVID-19 efforts. It was given a $490 million contract to produce ventilator machines at a facility in Indiana this month, as well, which began shipping to hospitals this week.
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The Trump supporters will probably b !t ch and whine that they are made in Mexico. I agree and Mexico should keep the masks for their own people.
The article had nothing to do with politics, but it speaks volumes that you made it about politics and decided to throw a temper tantrum.
Without the orange baboon, you wouldn’t need those masks. Politics are destroying the US, so everything is about politics right now.
Do you think Americans are enjoying their unplanned vacation?
Permitting politicians to live in your head (rent-free) is unhealthy. Perhaps get a second job or a hobby?
It is common knowledge that the virus began in Wuhan, China, but the virus has spread around the globe because of Trump? Wow. Interesting knowledge.
Your type of people have destroyed America. With 2 months of pre-warning by the CDC, the 17 US intelligence agencies and others, there was more than enough warning to keep this disaster under control. Taiwan, Singapour, South Korea and even China have done so much better.
The US is now #1 by far in the number of cases and people dead and climbing. The worst response (or lack of) on the planet. But people like you are far too ignorant, arrogant and tribal to recognize this. Your are nothing more than a ravaging cancer in our society.
Very sincerely.
A. *You’re
B. I never endorsed Pres. Trump in this thread. I simply stated that there is no need to make it political and use foul language.
C. The fact that you bring your anger, misery and hatred of a certain politician onto an automobile site and start fights via profanity-laden diatribes, is undoubtedly troubling.
Please get some help. You have some serious issues to resolve. Best of luck. Peace.
Thanks for your posting from China… if you believe the Communist Chinese over Trump you’re a coward and probably more… loser!
All liberals and DemoRats are cowards…
you should be bone spurs’ next press secretary. your main qualification is you’d kiss his ass 24/7.
And you can kiss mine D*p$hi!
You think Hitlary ClintStone, Quid Pro Joe, Krazie Bernie, Pocahontas, the other pathetic loser candidates, or any other could possibly do a better job? Cuomo? Newsome, Schumer, Pelosi, the pathetic list of garbage is endless… you morons are delusional…
Trump closed the border to flights from China in January, and was called racist. If the rest of the world did the same, this would have mostly been contained. Instead, the US got infected by people from countries who got it from China. But no point trying to reason with someone suffering from Trump Derangnent Syndrome.
False. The borders were never closed. They were only restricted to 40% of the traffic. Americans in China and all over Asia could openly return as they wished and bring the virus with them.
Yeah he closed the border to flights from China just like baby Bush shut down all air traffic in the US after 9-11. But every Saudi high roller was allowed to FLY out of the country over the next 3 days. For Trump 45,000 people were allowed to FLY into the country after his so called closing.
Check a news source beyond Trump’s lips or Fox news. Christ.
You are trash… as are your opinions….
Also GM (Ford also) can make an permanent business out of medical supplies not just for the CV19, other nations will have med supply issues also.
I’d like to know if the contract stipulated American made for the price the Gubment is paying. I can see Mary Barra trying to save a nickel and shove it in their pockets by taking a contract and finding the cheapest place to make them so she can boost the short term stock price…. This company is so freakin cheap… and they still don’t earn profits, boost share value, or gain market share they only boost their ATP… pathetic.
Wow, uncompetitive vehicles now uncompetitive supplies, you must have some good ideas Elon Musk don’t even have……
Xjug
Don’t worry about it. I’m sure the masks will be all sold out before your pathetic republican state gets around to buying any.
PiG – another winner from the loser in Chicago. keep supporting the DemoRats because while Chicago is being murdered you’ve had your 2nd Amendment rights taken away. Nothing you have to say has any credibility. The masks will probably not be needed., and knowing GM they’ll be recalled for quality issues…
America is such a tribal and divided country. The best weapon is when you can turn people against each other. Putin is laughing and drinking champagne every night
Xjug
The more you write, the more you embarrass yourself. Please keep going. I’m sure your knowledge of Chicago is good for at least a small paragraph.
PiG – tell me where I’m wrong? The city is shooting gallery and the citizens are disarmed…. The DemoRat politicians take their money and allow them to be shot at… nice! Sounds like a 3rd world country, THIS is DemoRat “leadership”…
I usually stay out of crap like this but as a Independent on the East Coast why do Republicans talk about Chicago like they have a program to revitalize the city?. Did Chicago manufacturer the CV19?, Wall St. criminally that effect people’s pensions, mortgage, etc?, $trillions of debt that never will be paid?, what is it?. I’m sure Chicago people isn’t thinking about “who’s getting high in Indiana?” or “how many layoffs in West VA?”
Guestt
Chicago is a big city. With a large number Fortune500 companies headquartered here. Gentrification is happening on steroids. The crime rate has been falling for years. We have a high level of city services, and Real Estate prices are still reasonable.
Guestt
Republicans hate Chicago because
1. it is a high tax heavily unionized city. That makes all the midwestern cities in republican states look bad.
2. We are rebuilding 2nd great heavily unionized city in the Midwest we are calling it Detroit.
A few things, crime or atleast murder was already falling prior to Gentrification in which the non-“gangster”citizens were asking for new resources not new narcissistic “neighbors” (what if a bunch of poor Chicagoans moved into your suburb or town?…ok)
For looking bad, Cleveland, Indianapolis, Cincinnati, Pittsburgh, Charleston WVA, Toledo etc. ain’t Republican showboats either (D-FW is probably the best Republican city I know of, it isn’t cheap to live there also).
Real Estate, now the market is in Hell, anybody with cash can get a home, next to borded-up homes, buildings and neighborhoods in the future as morgage requirements tightens and rebuilding Detroit?, Isn’t that a Demo stronghold?.
As for taxes to each it’s own, don’t have to be there as said before seen plenty of poor Right areas with low taxes and wages.
Guestt
Ohio is the perfect example. Republican Governor, the state capital is in Columbus. The banks that loan the state money all have large branches in Columbus. The big University Ohio State is in Columbus. The only city in the state doing well is Columbus.
Cincinnati, Cleveland, Dayton, Akron & Toledo are all being starved to death.
PiG you are an idiot, and you don’t know anything. Cleveland is historically DemoRat, Columbus, the state Capital is a swing city as OSU Students often vote for loser DemoRats. Cincinnati is historically conservative, I”m from there. Senator Rob Portman is from Cincinnati and Sherrod Brown, total loser, is from Cleveland. Cincy doesn’t starve its a vibrant city home to many superb companies, P&G, Great American, many others… Toledo has Jeep and a few others, its not starving, neither is Dayton its actually growing. Akron taps into Cleveland and is also doing well, Ohio in general is doing well…. keep mouthing off about stuff you don’t know about.
Chicago is a great city but could be greater. Its been managed by DemoRats for decades and is corrupt and its citizens are being murdered and the politicians do nothing. People are leaving Ill in droves due to corrupt politicians, high taxes and did I say corrupt DemoRat politicians and high taxes?
Detroit was destroyed by DemoRats and is being restored by private industry after what 2 mayors went to prison for corruption. The City Pension system (ne: employees on the take) bankrupted the city so the state had to take it over, a Republican Governor put it back in shape.
Pittsburgh is similar to Cincinnati and is actually doing well despite DemoRat Governors in PA. Charleston, Parkersburg and Huntington WVA are notorious for not doing well, Charleston more so. DuPont, Dow Chemical and many others are located Charleston the state capital. Parkersburg has Shell, GE Plastics, etc… and Huntington has Marshall U, its a nice town. WVa has always had a brain drain, kids leave WVa and never come back… I’ve spent time in all the above, I’ve been to them.. this is the case…
Is there an admin here who can filter some of these comments out or bring it back to GM topics? I thought this was about GM vehicles and not politics. Political arguments ruin this page.
Totally agree!!