Cummins Inc. (NYSE: CMI) has sold the equipment the company used to make masks for employees during the pandemic to a Black-owned company in Indianapolis. The company, Team Cruiser, plans on creating a disability-friendly employer producing masks beyond the immediate response to the pandemic. “This sale created a new Black American manufacturer,” said Helena Hutton, Senior Director of Cummins’
The equipment used to make masks at the Columbus Engine Plant in Columbus, Indiana (U.S.), has been sold to a Black businessman in nearby Indianapolis, who plans on creating a disability-friendly employer producing masks beyond the immediate response to the pandemic. “This sale created a new Black American manufacturer,” said Helena Hutton, Senior Director of Cummins’ Center of Excellence for S
When COVID-19 vaccines began to be available in April of 2021, India was deeply embroiled in a healthcare crisis that the whole world watched with compassion. Confirmed COVID-19 cases in the country reached almost 400,000 at its peak, and vaccines were scarce. Initially, India’s government only opened vaccine appointments for persons over 40 years old. Vaccines weren’t widely available and ther
Cummins Inc. began offering COVID-19 vaccines for its workforce and their dependents through mobile on-site clinics on April 1 and has now administered its 30,000th vaccine. The company has hosted clinics across its operations in the United States, and also clinics in India and Mexico. Nowhere has there been a better response to vaccine acceptance than in the Cummins Juárez site, where 95% of e
This joint op-ed originally appears in the August 13, 2021 edition of the Indianapolis Business Journal (IBJ). Subscribers of the IBJ can view the article here. We are facing another outbreak of COVID-19, again pulling out our masks right at the time we had hoped to return to a sense of normalcy after a bleak seventeen months. This outbreak is different though because it is now a pandemic
While many of us did our part to contain the Coronavirus pandemic by staying home and social distancing, our essential workers made sure that our world continued to turn. Late last year, Cummins Mexico and its New and ReCon Parts (NRP) organization partnered with Valvoline, Fleetguard and Club Motor to thank the nation’s truckers for their service—and get them tools they needed to stay safe. Th
COVID-19 restrictions are beginning to loosen up in different parts of the world, as more people are becoming fully vaccinated. Cummins began offering COVID-19 vaccines for its workforce and their dependents through mobile on-site clinics on April 1. The first mobile on-site clinic and vaccination was in Columbus, Indiana; now in just three months the company has administered its 15,000th COVID
Standing firm on its value of caring, Cummins’ goal is to get as many of its workforce and their dependents vaccinated and protected from COVID-19 as possible. The company continues working with local governments and health care providers to make approved vaccines available to all employees, contingent workers, and their eligible dependents. The company has now had mobile on-site clinics in Col
The COVID-19 pandemic has now touched every corner of the world. We are in uncharted territory, and all of us are having to make changes – big ones – in how we live and work. Like many of you, I am concerned about my family, especially my parents who are in the high-risk category. I am also concerned about all of you and about the impact the pandemic is having on our people, our custom