Focus Taiwan
Date: 03/24/2020
By Wang Chao-yu, Chung Jung-feng and Matthew Mazzetta, CNA staff writers

In industrial parks across northern Taiwan, a team of some 100 technicians has spent the last six weeks assembling 92 surgical face mask production lines that will boost the country's daily production capacity from 4 million to 13 million masks.

Recruited from companies across Taiwan, they have been compared to a national team of engineering talent in the local media and have been hailed by President Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文) for their contributions to Taiwan's COVID-19 prevention efforts.

For 63-year-old Chen Yu-hsu (陳宇旭), a factory manager at Posa Machinery in Taichung, taking part in the project has offered a chance to pass along knowledge from his decades of experience in precision manufacturing.

Although assembling face mask production lines is something new for Chen, he said he jumped at the chance when his employer recommended him for the task.    [FULL  STORY]