The role of the Walloon plastic industry in the COVID19 crisis

Submitted by Aurore Mourette on 18 May 2020

Nivelles, May 14, 2020 - As part of the coronavirus crisis, Plastiwin has mobilized the members of its cluster to design and produce essential medical equipment.

Plastiwin, the Walloon plastic industry cluster, brings together more than 100 key players in the biopolymers, elastomers, composites and synthetic textiles sector. The main mission of this cluster is to mobilize companies throughout the value chain for the production and processing of plastics in the Walloon Region, with the aim of stimulating socio-economic development.

Plastiwin mobilizes its resources to help in the fight against COVID19

In the context of the health crisis, Plastiwin has been able to play a major role through its Walloon members to facilitate dialogue between the various players in the plastics industry in order to accelerate the production of gowns, masks, bottles, parts for devices respirators, visors, syringes, protective plexiglass and other medical equipment. In order to cope with the shortage of equipment, Plastiwin has appointed a coordinator, Diego Lancksweert, whose main role has been to guide Walloon players in their search for skills among the members of Plastiwin and thus provide the most timely short, medical equipment.

Plastiwin was able to demonstrate its role as a cluster through various actions: • guiding Walloon actors towards essential partners for the realization of urgent productions; • calling for donations from its members to donate bottles, raw materials, plastic sheets and other materials; • calling on experts to find quick and concrete answers and thus quickly distribute the necessary material; • and alerting its members to register their services and products on the institutional platforms of Walloon players.

"Plastiwin has thus supported universities, manufacturers, hospitals and many consortia so that they find the essential partners among the players in the Walloon plastic industry! This is the role of a Cluster like Plastiwin!" - Aurore Mourette, General Manager of Plastiwin

Discover the details of Plastiwin's actions with the link below: https://bit.ly/3bA5HgJ

The plastics industry, an essential industry in Walloon territory

The presence of the entire value chain of the plastics and synthetic textiles industry on Walloon territory has been a real asset in providing, within very short deadlines, all the skills, services and products necessary to tackle the challenges together, which were created by the COVID19 crisis. The Plastiwin cluster companies were able to mobilize quickly and efficiently to design and produce medical equipment within extremely short deadlines.

"Bringing technical solutions while respecting the principles of circular economy, it is with this strategy that Plastiwin and its members have been committed for 10 years!" - Aurore Mourette, General Manager of Plastiwi

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