Staff at Croda International’s manufacturing sites in various regions worldwide continue to support communities during the COVID-19 pandemic. The company uses smart science to create, make and sell speciality chemicals that improve lives. Its manufacturing sites are tailoring their support to meet needs in their regions through the company’s ‘acts of kindness’ initiative.
The level of creativity shown by the company to get to the heart of what is needed by communities is impressive.
Lending a hand with creative donations
Crodarom, the company’s expert in botanical extracts, has donated a tablet device to a care home to help residents to keep in touch with families via video call, PPE to ambulance drivers and hydroalcoholic solution to fire departments, hospitals, schools and the 23 retirement homes in Lozère, France.
Communities around the company’s manufacturing site in Hull, UK are benefiting from new craft items and dementia activities, which are being used to stimulate residents of a care home who are unable to receive visitors. Plants, seeds and children’s activities have been donated to the children in a women’s refuge and PPE has been sent to nursing homes and hostels. Donations have also been made to a food bank and toiletries and other essentials to a homeless charity in Hull.
In Mevisa, Spain, staff at Croda’s manufacturing site have chosen to work alongside the Red Cross in the region to support older people who are living in isolation, as well as donating PPE to an oncology hospital. Over the next few weeks, they will also be supporting families with food baskets.
Croda Singapore is supporting migrant workers, who are currently in quarantine, with food hampers. Incotec Holambra in Brazil is providing PPE for medical staff, as well as a heart monitor for an ambulance serving the community in the region. They have also bought food and household materials for families in the community who have been impacted by COVID-19. Incotec sites at Enkhuizen, in the Netherlands, and Salinas in North America, are supporting foodbanks, which are seeing an increase in those who are needy due to the pandemic.
Contributing to research
In addition to its acts of kindness initiatives, Croda has gifted vaccine adjuvants to research institutions that are developing vaccinations for the virus. It has also gifted excipients to projects working on trial medication for COVID-19 and is providing enough glycerine free of charge to make five million bottles of hand sanitiser.
