The current COVID-19 outbreak continues to rise across the world impacting many of our customers and several markets, we operate in.
With this statement, we want to highlight our continued commitment to provide our customers with solutions and services during this challenging time. Also, we want to give an overview of the measures, we have implemented across our business to minimize impact on our operations. This includes acting responsibly in accordance with local government guidelines, ensuring a safe working environment for all employees and continuing to support our customers.
Production and Supply:
Based on our knowledge March 12, we do not see a significant impact on our ability to deliver. We may see a slight delay on a limited number of variants due to reduced capacity among some of our suppliers, but in general all our production and distribution sites continue operations. This includes our production site in China, our production site in Italy and our distribution centers in Europe, USA and China.
We have implemented extensive safety measures at our production and distribution sites to secure the ongoing production and distribution of goods. This includes strict contingency plans, no external visitors at any sites as well as ongoing training and communication to all employees on effective virus protection.
Sales and Service:
We are closely following local government recommendations for all our sites and offices as well as for our employees working in the fields. In some markets we are currently seeing no impact for our employees in Sales and Service. In other markets, our Sales teams are to an increasing extent working from home or from the office as authorities have encouraged to limit physical meetings.
However, across all markets, meetings can still be held using telephone, Skype or other digital solutions, and we can also continue to offer product demonstrations if this complies with local authority guidelines.
Our service teams will continue to service customers as needed and possible. All service technicians have been instructed on how to demonstrate the necessary hygiene precautions and have been instructed to call ahead prior to a service visit in case there are any customer specific guidelines, they need to be aware off.
More information:
With this statement, we want to thank our customers for continuing to place your trust in Nilfisk. We continue to keep our customers informed and will update this statement if we see significant changes in the current situation.
If you have any questions or would like to have additional information, we encourage you to reach out to your contact at Nilfisk. We will do our utmost to answer your questions and ask for your understanding in this special situation.
