Factory shut down from 25/03/2020 until 14/04/2020

Dear Ladies and Gentlemen,

We hope that you, your families and friends as well as colleagues are all healthy and will remain so. We wish that all of us together are spared from the corona virus disease. To protect our employees, we have implemented allof the recommended measures set out by the Robert Koch lnstitute and hope that this will help to prevent, or at least slow down, the spread of the virus.

Unfortunately the current situation changes daily and in the past few days we have been informed that a large number of our customers have now either slowed down their production or stopped it completely. ln response to this, and in the interests of our employees, we unfortunately have to advise you that we must also close our production facility from March 25th 2020 to April 14th 2020.

We would like to apologise for the inconvenience caused to you but, we are certain that you will understand that there is no alternative for these measures in the interests of our employees and their environment, but also for all of our business partners. So, we ask for your unconditional support in these difficult and challenging times.

We can only solve the corona virus crisis together by taking all possible and effective measures to contain this epidemic and unfortunately this will not work without restrictions.

We sincerely wish you, your families, friends and colleagues all the best in these challenging times. ln the days ahead, please stay healthy, protect yourselves and your community! We look forward to continuing to work with you in a spirit of partnership, success, and above all, healthy cooperation.

Mit freundlichen Grüssen

D. La Porte Söhne GmbH