CMPC Initiatives Help the Community Cope with the Health/Economic Effects of the Pandemic

Since the coronavirus started to spread in Latin America, Empresas CMPC decided to take an active role in helping the community to cope with this pandemic that has brought both health and economic consequences, especially in those areas where the company has operations.

Last April, CMPC acquired a total of six machines for the manufacture of surgical type masks for Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Mexico and Peru, motivated by generating a local, timely, safe and quality supply that collaborates in the task of reducing the risks of viral disease contagion.

In the case of Chile, CMPC committed 3 million masks, produced by the machine installed in the Softys mill in Puente Alto, to the National Supply Center (Cenabast), the entity in charge of the delivery of the masks to the public health services across the country and other entities according to their needs. To date, the company has donated 2 million masks to it and the main beneficiaries have been municipalities, foundations and firefighters.

In addition, to date, the company has delivered another 200,000 masks to various entities and communes in Chile, such as the Ministry of Justice and Human Rights to be delivered to the Gendarmerie health officials throughout the country; and different communities of the country.

In the case of Brazil, from April to date, the company has donated more than 600,000 masks in the state of Rio Grande do Sul, of which 400,000 were destined for the State Government and the rest to the Gaucho municipalities where the company has forestry operations. By the end of August, a total of 1 million masks will have been donated for that state, all of them produced by Softys.

Furthermore, in the state of Paraná, 260,000 units have already been donated, of which 200,000 were destined for the State Government and 60,000 for the municipality of Mallet; in Sao Paulo 560,000 masks were delivered up to July, of which 350,000 went to the State Government, 150,000 to the municipality of Caieiras and 60,000 to the municipality of Mogi das Cruzes. Finally, in Pernambuco, 160,000 masks were donated: 100,000 for the State Government; 30,000 for the municipality of Jaboatão dos Guararapes and 30,000 for Recife.

Also, CMPC announced that it will add a new mask manufacturing machine in Chile, which will also be installed at the Puente Alto mill. Thus, the company will achieve a production of 3 million masks per month in that country.

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