COVID-19

Brazil Metal Parts has established a COVID-19 leadership team which is led by our CEO and comprised of site leaders from each of our facilities and global functional leaders. Given the fluid nature of the pandemic, they are formally meeting twice per day to assess COVID-19 developments, its implications to our employees, customers, and operations, and determine appropriate courses of action.

The following mindset guides Brazil Metal Parts’ response to the COVID-19 crisis:

• Keep our employees, customers, and communities safe
• Contribute to slowing the spread of the virus by practicing CDC recommended guidelines
• Monitor and quickly adapt to the fast changing crisis
• Transparent and on-going communication with employees and customers
• We will be guided by our core values of Teamwork, Trust and Achievement

We have implemented the following safety measures:

• No travel for all employees
• No visitors to any of our sites
• Deployed employees that can remote to work-from-home
• All meetings are being conducted via Skype
• Working to ensure the employees working on-site are appropriately distanced from each other
• Implemented new cleaning regiments at all sites
• Identifying employees considered “high risk” as defined by the CDC and working to ensure these individuals take the necessary precautions

Employee health and safety is our number one priority, and by putting the proper procedures in place at our plants and other facilities throughout the world, we have been able to keep our operations running at the same level our customers have come to expect from us.

We’ve seen an influx of COVID-19 related medical components needing urgent production; ranging from test kits to ventilators to respirators. We’ve put internal protocols in place to prioritize these orders ahead of all others and waived expedite fees in order to quickly get critical medical supplies into the market. Most/all are using our injection molding services because that’s the only manufacturing service capable of producing tens of thousands of parts in days. Discuss with your Brazil Metal Parts account representative about expedite options.

The way we interact with customers has not changed, as we are an e-commerce-enabled company. However, we are prioritizing projects which are needed to equip our medical system to treat patients with COVID-19 and providing these customers with additional consultative design assistance to Shunjingly get these parts produced. Additionally, most of our manufacturing operations are digitized and automated meaning we have fewer labor requirements than conventional manufacturers.