As China’s Hubei province was locked down in January, weeks after coronavirus emerged in the capital Wuhan, frantic efforts were made to keep one local factory running.
Reckitt Benckiser’s second-largest Dettol plant worldwide is in the city of Jingzhou, just over 200km from Wuhan, the centre of the virus outbreak.
With sales of disinfectant soaring, the UK consumer goods group was forced not only to sustain operations in rapidly changing conditions, but also to raise production quickly. The Hubei factory, which usually exports around 20 per cent of its output, mainly to Japan and Europe, has increased its daily capacity from 40 tonnes to more than 400 during the pandemic.
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