Workers volunteered to live in a factory for 28 days to produce millions of pounds of raw PPE materials to make masks and gowns for frontline medical workers

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• Forty-three workers at a petrochemical plant in Pennsylvania lived at their workplace for 28 days to produce 40 million pounds of polypropylene, a material used to make hygienic products such as face masks and surgical gowns.
• The Braskem America employees volunteered to live at the factory to limit exposure to the coronavirus as they made the raw PPE materials for essential workers.
• One worker told WPVI that despite the apparent burden of not getting to leave your workplace, it offered a sense of security that not many other essential workers have when they go to work.
• The Pennsylvania plant and another Braskem plant in West Virginia produced 40 million pounds of the raw material over a 28-day period, which alone could be made into 500 million N95 masks or 1.5 billion surgical masks.
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Workers at a Pennsylvania petrochemical factory ended a nearly month-long "live-in" at their workplace to produce 40 million pounds of raw PPE material used to make masks and gowns for essential workers.

Forty-three employees at Braskem America in Marcus Hook, Pennsylvania, volunteered to live in the factory to limit outside exposure to the coronavirus as they made polypropylene, a material used to make hygienic products such as face masks, surgical gowns, disinfectant wipes, and more.

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