Daily production could more than double to 2 million masks: CSD

Taiwan News
Date: 2020/09/04
By: Matthew Strong, Taiwan News, Staff Writer

TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — Surging demand is leading mask maker CSD to spend NT$120 million (US$4.09 million) on a new factory not far from its headquarters in Changhua City, reports said Thursday (Sept. 3).

The Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has led to worldwide demand for surgical masks to explode. On Friday (Sept. 4), investigators were questioning the manager of a company accused of importing masks from China and passing them off as Taiwanese products.

At present, CSD produced between 700,000 and 750,000 masks per day, but once its new factory in Huatan, Changhua County, came online, a gradual expansion to a total of 2 million masks per day would no longer be a problem, CNA reported.

Production was expected to start during the third quarter of 2021, with part of the masks slated for export, management said. Initially, surgical face masks were already a popular product inside Taiwan, with CSD as the leading brand.    [FULL  STORY]