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    A pharmaceutical factory burned 24 hours after the explosion 1 dead 1 injured!

    • Last Update: 2021-01-02
    • Source: Internet
    • Author: User
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    Reported that the fire on the 20th caused one death and one injury to their own employees, one of the injured employees 90% of the body three degrees burns, rushed to The Linkou Changxuan Hospital for emergency treatment, awareness but the situation is not optimistic, another 40-year-old Xu surnamed employee was burned in the right palm, an area of about 1%, also rushed to hospital.
    Because the site stacked a large number of chemicals such as methanol, toluene, sodium metal, and so on, there is no shortage of water-banning substances and high volatile solvents, where the flow, fire on the fire to where, to add to the difficulty of rescue, especially in the explosion of the plant outside there are 5 store tanks, firefighters in addition to strengthening vigilance, but also emergency control of the fire on the periphery, force to prevent the fire continued to burn, the scene of a mess, fire point may be on the third floor.
    Taiwan's fire department said the suspected plant stored eight barrels of 160 kilograms of metal sodium per barrel of water reaction, although there was an explosion, but there was no open fire, the preliminary investigation did not resume.
    Taoyuan Luzhu District Xufu Pharmaceutical 20 noon serious fire, the scene not only heard the sound of explosions, the fire is more unmanageable, all the way to the other five nearby factories, the operators suffered heavy losses.
    fact, Xufu Pharmaceutical Factory is a member of the "Pharmaceutical National Team", Tsai Ing-wen visited on April 8th, accompanied by Xufu Chairman Ong Weijun.
    Ing-wen, accompanied by Ong Weijun, visited Xufu's factory area, visiting the finished raw materials area and the finished product storage.
    including Chen Qimei, then vice-president of the Executive Yuan, and Zheng Wencan, mayor of Taoyuan, also attended the visit.
    Tsai Ing-wen also thanked Xufu for donating 1 ton of quinine API to the Taiwan authorities' outbreak command center to assist in epidemic prevention efforts, and promised to retain at least 3 tons of API in each batch of future production to meet the island's demand for medicines to ensure the health of the population.
    it is understood that Asahi Fu Pharmaceuticals was established in 1976, as the world's largest PPON supplier, the market share of more than 80 percent, and for the control of the drug key intermediates Pent2, NBE, S-2, AL-1, EPMA and other only producers.
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