AUBURN HILLS, Mich.,
March 27, 2020 /PRNewswire/
-- As previously communicated to the company's employees from
Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (FCA) CEO Mike
Manley, the company is in the process of converting its
first plant to produce face masks for donation to first responders
and health care workers. The first machinery has been delivered and
installed with supply and donation coming on stream in the coming
weeks.
FCA is expanding its program of measures to support coronavirus
relief efforts, focused on two principal areas: charities providing
food services to children and support for a range of technical,
logistical and manufacturing programs, such as face mask
production.
"There has never been a more important moment to help children
and their families with vital needs in our communities than during
this time of great uncertainty," said FCA CEO Mike Manley.
Food programs for children in our communities
FCA will work in partnership with non-profit organizations and
foundations that are providing food to children until schools
return to session. Starting immediately, FCA will help provide more
than 1 million meals to school-age children in the communities
around our principal manufacturing plants in Illinois, Indiana, Michigan and Ohio. The program will then be extended
nationwide in the U.S. and to Canada and Mexico, supporting similar relief efforts for
kids who would normally access school meal services.
Mobilizing company resources
Following the first actions taken to start face mask production,
the company is now investing technical, logistical and
manufacturing resources at medical equipment and personal
protective equipment (PPE). With the donation of face masks
produced by the company starting in the coming weeks, the company
will invest to extend that production capacity to other plants and
ultimately donate masks to first responders and health care workers
across the world. Drawing on experience from the company's
engineering and logistics team in Italy who are assisting a local ventilator
manufacturer, FCA is engaged with other companies producing
ventilators and other much needed medical equipment and PPE.
"In this time of need, we've focused our resources on those
actions we can implement quickly and that will have the greatest
impact, as we did in Italy as soon
as the emergency started," added Manley.
FCA
Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (FCA) is a global automaker that designs,
engineers, manufactures and sells vehicles in a portfolio of
exciting brands, including Abarth, Alfa Romeo, Chrysler, Dodge,
Fiat, Fiat Professional, Jeep®, Lancia, Ram and Maserati.
It also sells parts and services under the Mopar name and operates
in the components and production systems sectors under the Comau
and Teksid brands. FCA employs nearly 200,000 people around
the globe. For more details regarding FCA (NYSE: FCAU/ MTA: FCA),
please visit www.fcagroup.com.
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