Local tailors, dressmakers tapped to produce more PPEs

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San Miguel Corporation has called on local tailors and dressmakers to help create more personal protective equipment to be used in the government's fight against COVID-19

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SMC president Ramon S. Ang said the worldwide shortage of PPE last year as the pandemic was announced was still fresh in the minds of Filipinos.

SMC's packaging unit San Miguel Yamamura Packaging Corporation has begun local production and distribution of PPEs for the medical sector, tapping community-based tailors and dressmakers to assemble the protective suits, using medical fabric produced in its woven products facility in Malaysia. In a Senate hearing in April, the Confederation of Philippine Manufacturers of PPE, or CPMP, said its five member companies invested $35 million in 2020 to heed the government's call for locally made PPEs, but continued to incur losses up to this year.

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