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A million masks sold!

A million masks sold!

A million masks sold. The demand is enormous.

Due to the hustle and bustle today, I was unable to view my mail for two hours. Philips Foundation ordered for their five mobile units, I read. They build tent hospitals and rotate them through various hospitals, and for this, they need 1 million face masks. And Philips itself wants 150,000 masks for the technicians who maintain all the medical devices in the hospitals. That looks very good.

In the business case, we looked closely at how we can ensure that we can also keep local production outside the crisis period in the Netherlands. We are going to make agreements about this with the hospitals and the ministry about an “iron stock.” To ensure we’ll always have plenty here in the Netherlands and so our machines can keep running after all of this is over.

Deal Machine

Just after the NOS left, Jaap Stelwagen, one of the co-initiators, tells me that all machines have been bought up like crazy in China by the Americans. Ling just called Jaap and said the prices of the machines have doubled in a week. Many questionable traders offer production lines for high amounts. This could become a difficult story. This is a small disappointment since I just said on NOS radio how much I believed in this. Fortunately, Ling is incredibly…

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The Phillips foundation loan

This entire venture is cancelled if we don’t manage to secure 3 to 4 hundred thousand euros within the next couple of days. That doesn’t seem like a lot in this crisis, but under normal circumstances it would take at least a couple of months as a social entrepreneur. We’re not a big corporation which is a good thing. We’re not in it for the money. We believe we can help fix the enormous shortage of medical supplies. As a…

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