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Covid-19: Welspun to use textile capacity to make disinfectant wipes, masks

The firm plans to build a pipeline of a few hundred thousand masks and wipes in the coming weeks for all on-ground workers and their families attending to essential services

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Vinay Umarji Ahmedabad
Amid the coronavirus (Covid-19) outbreak in the country, the Welspun Group is switching capacities at its textiles plant of Welspun India Ltd in Anjar, Gujarat to manufacture disinfectant wipes and masks to meet the demand-supply gap for personal protection.

The company plans to build a pipeline of a few hundred thousand masks and wipes in the coming weeks that could be made available to all on-ground workers and their families attending to essential services, B K Goenka, chairman of Welspun Group told Business Standard.

The plant that makes home textile products for largely exports along with domestic market also has technical textiles

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