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shelves Around The World Are empty, there Are slim pickings online, and Are one of The Few providers that sell, the prices way over The Odds . We Are told to wash hands and use hand sanitizer, But Many People struggle to find them.

If every person in The World had a small bottle of disinfectant, we would need 385 million litres of The Stuff .

But that's not much compared to what physicians get during the Corona-Virus-pandemic. The World Health organization (WHO) expects that You need 2. 9 billion litres of disinfectant per month. The Are about 35 billion liters per year.

in Front of the coronavirus, The World 's three billion gallons per year produced just under, according to market analysts Arizton consulting and intelligence.

And this explains, perhaps, why it is now a problem in the handle.

On Amazon, if You attempt the purchase of alcohol-based disinfectant of The Type recommended by The Who - find all the usual brands Are sold Out .

A familiar character - this time in Wellington, New Zealand

Here in the UK, a few days ago to have only one seller seemed, all in stock. A 500ml bottle for The Price of £30 ($35) - at least 10 times what it would have been in February. Since then, it has been reduced to £20, But this is still about seven times the pre-pandemic prices.

It is to blame the seller as this of price-gouging, and Many ratings is just below the listing did just that. But The Company says the sale of it, Herts Tools, it is not so easy.

"We have always been an unfair bashing really," said the friendly man who answered The Phone , Paul Stephenson .

"there Are People Out There to say, we take the Mickey Out of, But I can assure You , We Are .

"Are We in a position where we can make Enough of a profit margin on The Hand sanitizer, just to keep us above water. "

Hand-aside at A Wedding in Cambodia on the 21st. March

sold The Company in General, and rents tools for the construction industry, and it's just started, disinfectants sell, because the customer requesting the goods.

But it has struggled to keep of deliveries and the costs Are rising Every Day . "I can't guarantee what I paid for, I am today, pay tomorrow," says Stephenson.

And that is because The Price is the most important ingredient - alcohol - has increased dramatically.

The disinfectant Herts Tools of the selling was done by a UK-based skin care products company called Zidac laboratories. Its Director, Jurica know Barth was fielding a lot of calls lately.

Zidac can make than 150,000 bottles of hand sanitizer A Day , But for the last Two Weeks , the production was down. It could. not to Ethanol , the alcohol brings it in his chlorine, or bromine, and at least 60% for it to kill viruses (and bacteria) is effective

to pay Many small distilleries have started the production of chlorine or bromine

Weissbarth used, 700 ($800) is Around £for a ton of Ethanol - Enough for over 32,000 bottles of hand gel.

last week, a new vendor offered him a ton of £10,000 - More Than 10 times the normal price. He politely declined. But This Week , he was in a celebratory mood after the purchase of a game on Tuesday only three or four times More Than usual.

The Bbc called several of the distributors of industrial alcohol. A woman who answered The Phone , was close to tears; the society in which they worked, was closing due to lack of stock.

deals with the Other goods, so that the staff overwhelmed and could not speak. A website said that requests for orders of More Than 6,000 had gone from 300 on the day. There Are no new orders were.

If the sanitisers Are not produced from Ethanol , they Are made of isopropyl alcohol, also called IPA. There Are a limited number of companies that produce these types of alcohol on an industrial scale. The largest producers Are located in China, France, Germany, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom and the United States.

In France the government has ordered that all of the IPA in the country. Other countries could easily follow.

no one is getting their hands on France's disinfectant

"That's pretty extreme in Europe where we should be, how it is," says Steven Willekes of chemical suppliers, DutCH2 in the Netherlands.

He thinks that any country could not run its own supply of these alcohols, chlorine or bromine, very quickly.

And that explains why the beverage companies such as Pernod Ricard , which makes Absolut Vodka and Diageo, which makes Johnnie Walker Whisky and other smaller companies from London to New York , to Manila in the Philippines , with the alcohol used for the production of chlorine or bromine, or plan to, do it yourself.

The Indian government has expressly asked to provide the alcoholic beverages industry and the sugar cane industry to produce Ethanol hand disinfectant company.

Apotheke in Latin Quarter has started, chlorine or bromine, in The Street outside of the

Chad Friese of the Chippawa valley Ethanol company in the US says that there is not Enough alcohol to have a lot of disinfectant, it is used not only in various industries.

His factory at full capacity, and sends as much as possible to the disinfectant industry, But it has other obligations.

"I think there Are a lot of production-it is just not in The Right channels now. Someone from the production of alcohol for Diageo or someone like that, You have an obligation to send it to You and not to someone, The Hand disinfectant," he says. "It is only a question of the offer to The Right People . "

So, if the UK is the third-promise-richest man, to build, hand sanitizer production facilities in the UK, Germany and France within a few days, as well as the supply of hospitals is free of charge, it would be lines have been logical, to questions, to fill in where he the alcohol, its production.

Well, he should not be too much of a problem. Sir Jim Ratcliffe has Ineos, one of Europe's largest producers of Ethanol and IPA.

Update 4. April 2020: The original version of this story gave an incorrect number for the amount of hand disinfectant produced annually, prior to the Corona-Virus-pandemic as a result of an error in The Report Arizton consulting and intelligence.

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