Hong Kong’s new face mask market: from outdoor furniture manufacturers to filmmakers, here’s how companies adapted

Hong Kong-based outdoor furniture maker 3i Corporation saw its exports to the US and Europe start to stagnate at the beginning of the year as the first reverberations of an economically disastrous global pandemic were felt.To weather the downturn that was to come, the family firm with the unlikely name decided to do what dozens of others were doing: make protective face masks.It started out with two machines in a factory in San Po Kong in April. Today it boasts six, capable of producing…

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