Kuwait Public Authority for Industry (PAI) announced on Saturday the continuation of establishing a strategic stock of protective masks for a period of six months amid an outbreak of coronavirus COVID-19.
The authority said in a press statement that the daily local production of eight factories and local crafts is estimated at more than 5,000,000 million masks, as there are 522 tons of raw materials currently available at industrial facilities and 133 tons of imported raw materials to increase production capacity.
When the outbreak of the crisis, there was only one factory for masks manufacturing, as for now they reached nine, the statement added.
PAI confirmed its support to national factories by facilitating the approval process for industrial facilities to produce basic material for the production of masks, as well as providing the necessary strategic stock to citizens and residents.
The establishment of those local factories came in coordination with the Ministry of Health to meet the product requirements, it said, stressing that the industrial sector plays a prominent role in easing the effect of this crisis.
