Finland buys over 1 million litres of disinfectant and 100 million masks in 2020
The volume of hand disinfectant sold in Finland last year would more than half fill an Olympic-size swimming pool.
Last spring, Finland was threatened by a shortage of hand disinfectant. As a result many companies shifted their focus of production to meet demand.
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The sudden appearance of the coronavirus in the spring of 2020 created massive demand for hand sanitation products and face masks in Finland.
Like many businesses last March, the Tampere-based company Poikain Parhaat, a firm specialising in natural food products, saw sales stall as the pandemic worsened.