COVID-19 epidemic has worldwide impacts. As a response, our company has demonstrated a great sense of mission and social responsibility in a special period to effectively contain the epidemic and provide better services and safeguard. The epidemic outbreak occurred during the Spring Festival holiday. ITW headquarters in China foreseeingly sent a source-seeking mail for masks to headquarters in US. Then we received the masks and assigned them to twenty-seven factories in China, which supported the epidemic control of each branch in China.

Subsidiaries in different countries helped each other! In January, Korea subsidiary helped us purchase 3,360 KF94 masks, and as the epidemic became serious in Japan and Korea in late February, we also actively deployed epidemic prevention supplies to efficiently support epidemic prevention work in Japanese and Korean factories, helping our partners to prevent and fight epidemic. As the epicenter shifted to US, Ireland, and Denmark, etc. in early March, we raced against time to provide support to these countries. In April, we collected 100,000 masks to help the epidemic control in Germany Subsidiary, which showed our warm!

Stand together to win the battle over the COVID-19 outbreak! We will work together with all sectors of the community and global partners to contain and win the battle over the COVID-19 outbreak. We hope the epidemic will end soon and everyone is happy and safe.