Coronavirus closes Konica Minolta factories
March 20, 2020
In a statement posted by Konica Minolta entitled “Response to Novel Coronavirus in Konica Minolta Group”, the company has said in response to the COVID-19 situation in France and Malaysia its factories have halted operations.
Like many other companies across the world, Konica Minolta, Inc. and its Group companies have been responding to development of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19).
The Konica Minolta Group said in its statement it works on maintaining the health and safety of the people working for the Group and their families as top priority, making efforts to prevent the infection from spreading and carrying on with provision of products and services for the customers and society at large, in accordance with governmental guidance, instructions and regulations each country where the Group operates.
For the company’s primary sector, Business Technologies businesses, their production facilities (Wuxi and Dongguan) in China resumed their manufacturing and shipping operations from 10 February. The recovery has been swift. Konica Minolta said the factories have been working closely with each supplier for procurement of parts necessary for production. In China, factories for other Business Units (Dalian, Shanghai’s Songjiang District and Xiamen) have also been operating well.
Under the governmental restrictions until 31 March, the Business Technologies’ Malaysian factory (Malacca) has halted operation since 18 March. As in the above, the recovering factories in China are going to play a role in complementing Malaysian production.
In France, under the governmental restrictions until 31 March, the Business Technologies’ factory in Lorraine has also halted operation since 18 March. The French factory primarily operates to fill toner cartridges as consumables. Responding to these changes, the Group has been closely working, on global basis, to minimise the supply risks.
Maintaining safety of the customers, employees and related parties and preventing infection expansion, events to be hosted by the Konica Minolta Group has been under restraint, with cancellation and postponement.
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