Melbourne breweries to make sanitiser for doctors, nurses
They’ve served Aussies beer for more than 150 years. Now this Melbourne brewing giant is coming to hero doctor and nurses’ rescue with much-needed hand sanitiser for frontline medical crews.
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Beer giant Carlton and United Breweries will become a coronavirus good Samaritan by giving more than 20,000 litres of hand sanitiser to frontline medical staff.
Melbourne-based CUB will help manufacture and transport the precious safety liquid to doctors and nurses for free to help stop the spread of the deadly virus.
Rather than selling the product, CUB will donate hand sanitiser to medical teams in emergency wards around the country.
It will also donate sanitiser to Coles and Woolworths supermarket employees to help keep the community safe.
CUB chief executive Peter Filipovic said the nation’s biggest brewer had a part to play in battling the COVID-19 crisis.
“For more than 150 years we’ve helped Australians come together over a beer,’’ he said.
“Now it’s time to lend a helping hand as they stay apart to fight the virus.’’
With stocks in short supply, CUB will help produce at least 40,000 bottles of the product from a factory in Cheltenham in partnership with hygiene company Ecolab.
CUB will also donate 500ml bottles to vulnerable people in the community, bottle shops, pubs, clubs, suppliers and its own employees, bringing total production to 30,000 litres.
The first bottles are expected to start leaving Ecolab’s facilities next week.
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