Some Crane employees are now producing hand sanitizer.
(Mallory Haag)
Personnel at southern Indiana’s Naval Support Activity (NSA) Crane are producing hand sanitizer for Department of Defense employees.
A Crane official says they’ve spent about $20,000 on new equipment and reconfigured an existing facility to produce the sanitizer.
“One of the ways we identified we could continue to support warfighters in the short term was to set up a new line to produce hand sanitizer,” says Jason Gay, commodity manager for Navy ordnance at Crane Army.
“It's significantly different from what we normally do, which is producing, remanufacturing and maintaining munitions.”
Gay says his staff can produce about 2,000 gallons of sanitizer a day.
It’s being used by Department of Defense personnel including civilians both in the United States and abroad to fight the coronavirus outbreak.
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