Nissan Sunderland sorting PPE for NHS
Workers at Nissan’s Sunderland plant are helping to get hundreds of thousands of protective face visors to frontline workers.
A team of volunteers have created a parts processing line in the final assembly area at the plant to sort thousands of individual visor parts and pack them in sets of 125 for shipping direct to the UK’s National Health Service.
More than 77,000 visors will leave the plant by the end of this week, with up to 100,000 being distributed each week, from next week.
In the first phase of the project, the team took delivery of hundreds of boxes of visor parts from volunteers from across the country who have been using their 3D printers to make the PPE.
Adam Pennick, Nissan’s production director said: “It’s great to be able to play our part in helping to provide the NHS with these visors. Our people are experts in the logistics behind an effective supply chain, and we certainly weren’t short of volunteers for this project.”
