The LVMH group is ramping up to supply a large quantity to hospitals in Paris (AH-HP) of hydroalcoholic gel that he is committed to be produced, Sunday March 15.
The first bottles of hydroalcoholic gel began to be delivered free of charge as early as Monday, March 16, during the day, to the 39 hospitals of the Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP).
“The first day, 10,000 bottles were produced. By the end of this week, the weekly production rate of 12,000 tonnes will be reached,” said the management of the French luxury group.
Such a quantity, which could increase further thereafter, would allow the group to supply gel hospitals other than those of the AP-HP, even if, for the moment, it is not the agenda.
This ramp-up also involved the initiation of the packaging of the gel by using plastic bottles usually used for liquid soap, used in a related manner by the group in the context of its perfume activity.
Last Sunday, the luxury group LVMH undertook to manufacture “in large quantities” hydroalcoholic gel on three of its French production sites usually dedicated to its perfumes and cosmetics (Dior near Orléans, Guerlain in Chartres and in Orfain en Yvelines and Givenchy, near Beauvais in the Oise).
AP-HP director general Martin Hirsch thanked LVMH for its responsiveness: “they made us a proposal on Saturday at 9:00 pm, which materialized on Sunday at 3:00 pm,” he said.
In the shadow of the luxury giant, SMEs have already taken the lead facing shortages of frost. Like Lips, whose factory located in the suburbs of Nantes usually manufactures liquids for e-cigarettes. She’s been doing it since going into stage 2 more than a week ago.
In addition, the Pernod-Ricard group has decided to donate 70,000 liters of pure alcohol to Cooper Laboratory, a supplier of hydroalcoholic gels in pharmacies. This initiative will allow him to increase his deliveries of alcohol to pharmacies, which can now produce hydroalcoholic gel, the equivalent of about 1.8 million individual 50 ml bottles.
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