Reliance Industries (RIL) has converted Alok Industries, a textile company it acquired recently, to manufacture protective gear needed by professionals tackling the Coronavirus outbreak.
The company has redeployed Alok Industries' manufacturing facilities in Silvassa, Gujarat, for exclusively manufacturing personal protective equipment (PPE) to safeguard doctors, nurses, medical staff and other frontline workers engaged in fighting the COID-19 pandemic.
The capacity has been scaled up to produce more than 1,00,000 PPE kits per day and cost has been slashed to nearly Rs 650 per unit from about Rs 2,000 a piece imported price. The facility can also be used for exporting PPE in future.