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LiberalArkie

(15,686 posts)
Mon Apr 20, 2020, 07:22 PM Apr 2020

More than 40 employees lived at their plant for 28 days to make material to protect health care work

More than 40 employees lived at their plant for 28 days to make material to protect health care workers



(CNN)Workers at a Pennsylvania manufacturing plant got to clock out and go home for the first time in almost a month after a marathon effort to make material needed for personal protective medical equipment.

More than 40 employees volunteered to spend 28 days at the Braskem America plant in Marcus Hook, near Philadelphia, to make polypropylene -- a raw material needed to make N95 masks, medical gowns and other protective gear, CNN affiliate WPVI reported. They went home on Sunday.

Braskem set up the live-in rotation to "to help ensure the health and safety of our team members who are working as an essential service throughout this crisis to keep these key supply lines running," the company said in a news release.
The plant makes 771 million pounds of polypropylene each year, according to the company's website.

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https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/20/us/coronavirus-workers-go-home-trnd/index.html

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More than 40 employees lived at their plant for 28 days to make material to protect health care work (Original Post) LiberalArkie Apr 2020 OP
Bravo! Hekate Apr 2020 #1
WOW! SheltieLover Apr 2020 #2
Great call SL DENVERPOPS Apr 2020 #10
Thx, Denver SheltieLover Apr 2020 #11
Wow. Just - WOW. NoMoreRepugs Apr 2020 #3
The best of America. Wow. Glimmer of Hope Apr 2020 #4
Thank you one and all. lpbk2713 Apr 2020 #5
Well done them! SammyWinstonJack Apr 2020 #6
These are the heroes malaise Apr 2020 #7
Wow! What a team! Well done! (nt) scarletwoman Apr 2020 #8
Instead of protesting and complaining Kaiserguy Apr 2020 #9
May they get home without encountering infected (faux) protesters. Hermit-The-Prog Apr 2020 #13
WOW!!! I hope each and every one of them gets a substantial bonus. niyad Apr 2020 #12
Wonder how many of their trucks Trump hijacked? BamaRefugee Apr 2020 #14
Fantastic ! They should get a shout out from old anus mouth like the my pillow goof. kacekwl Apr 2020 #15
The article says this happened at three factories jmowreader Apr 2020 #16
Thank you to these volunteers. I know our doctors, 1st responders, other health care iluvtennis Apr 2020 #17
And thank you to their families! GopherGal Apr 2020 #30
Heroes MLAA Apr 2020 #18
Companies like this need to be remembered and rewarded widely at a later date. . . . nt Bernardo de La Paz Apr 2020 #19
Many thanks Tanchick Apr 2020 #20
God Bless them. We NEED Pennsylvania in November... SMC22307 Apr 2020 #21
Bravo to them. I hope their products went to our medical teams. catrose Apr 2020 #22
these guys are real heroes and great men. demigoddess Apr 2020 #23
Hats off to these wonderful workers! orangecrush Apr 2020 #24
Thank you! gademocrat7 Apr 2020 #25
Kicked and recommended. ❤ nt littlemissmartypants Apr 2020 #26
K&R Blue Owl Apr 2020 #27
Exemplary Americans! Much obliged. Stay safe and well now. n/t MFGsunny Apr 2020 #28
You rock! Thank you. Joinfortmill Apr 2020 #29
Real Human Beings! burrowowl Apr 2020 #31
Amazing. Big thanks for all of their hard work! nt crickets Apr 2020 #32
These people represent the finest of America. benfranklin1776 Apr 2020 #33
More heroes. nt tblue37 Apr 2020 #34
I've Been In Those Type Of Plants ProfessorGAC Apr 2020 #35

SheltieLover

(57,073 posts)
2. WOW!
Mon Apr 20, 2020, 07:28 PM
Apr 2020

Awesome commitment to help!

Is the punchline here that the pResident of the United States confisgated what was produced to ensure suffering, death, and his personal profit?

DENVERPOPS

(8,677 posts)
10. Great call SL
Mon Apr 20, 2020, 07:46 PM
Apr 2020

I wouldn't doubt it. Given what he has demonstrated throughout this crisis, would anyone think any differently?????????/

SheltieLover

(57,073 posts)
11. Thx, Denver
Mon Apr 20, 2020, 07:48 PM
Apr 2020

Win/win for dump & repukes. They get to kill people & make tons of money. Wait, where have we seen that before....

lpbk2713

(42,696 posts)
5. Thank you one and all.
Mon Apr 20, 2020, 07:32 PM
Apr 2020


Now the hell of it is ... they can't go out and celebrate their
accomplishment. They have to stay penned up at home.

Kaiserguy

(740 posts)
9. Instead of protesting and complaining
Mon Apr 20, 2020, 07:43 PM
Apr 2020

these men and women did what they had to do to protect all of us. Great job folks

kacekwl

(6,993 posts)
15. Fantastic ! They should get a shout out from old anus mouth like the my pillow goof.
Mon Apr 20, 2020, 08:08 PM
Apr 2020

By the way anyone know how many masks pillow man has delivered ?

jmowreader

(50,447 posts)
16. The article says this happened at three factories
Mon Apr 20, 2020, 08:09 PM
Apr 2020

The company has plants in at least Pennsylvania, Texas and West Virginia, and all three plants did it.

And just so you know: the company gave the workers an increase in wages, beds, kitchens, groceries, Internet access, and iPads. Very classy.

As to the assertion that Trump confiscated the material the plant made: he probably did, or at least tried to, but he would have waited until after it was turned into PPE. It's worth more to him as finished goods.

iluvtennis

(19,756 posts)
17. Thank you to these volunteers. I know our doctors, 1st responders, other health care
Mon Apr 20, 2020, 08:09 PM
Apr 2020

professionals are very thankful.

GopherGal

(1,998 posts)
30. And thank you to their families!
Tue Apr 21, 2020, 02:37 PM
Apr 2020

The families who didn't see their loved ones for a month made this possible.

Tanchick

(4 posts)
20. Many thanks
Mon Apr 20, 2020, 08:51 PM
Apr 2020

Braskem America plant in Marcus Hook, Thank you from bottom of my heart!! You folks are angels !!

SMC22307

(8,088 posts)
21. God Bless them. We NEED Pennsylvania in November...
Mon Apr 20, 2020, 08:57 PM
Apr 2020

and I hope these men and women vote with eyes wide open about the POS currently in the White House. Social media and some on DU like to trash the WWC, but we need these voters.

benfranklin1776

(6,427 posts)
33. These people represent the finest of America.
Tue Apr 21, 2020, 04:32 PM
Apr 2020

Their selfless sacrifice stands in stark counterpoint to Agent Oranges relentless criminal, self enriching, self aggrandizing travesty. Going forward they are the example to emulate if America is to realize its potential True Greatness again.

ProfessorGAC

(64,413 posts)
35. I've Been In Those Type Of Plants
Tue Apr 21, 2020, 04:42 PM
Apr 2020

It's a HIGHLY reactive process & precision to meet very stringent specifications requires GREAT focus & attention by operators.
It's automated, but every deviation alarm needs to be addressed RIGHT F'N NOW!
Staying there for 28 days with that kind of mental effort is heroic!

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