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Dear friends
exactly 45 days have gone
by since the first of 7 terrible, devastating earthquakes have struck us.
Our entire factory has been virtually left unusable.
As you can see from various cranes around here,
we are still uncovering the buildings.
As I’ve recently mentioned a few times
we are tough people
We are country people, people who have worked the land.
Within a season we might not be able to rebuild everything,
but most of what has been destroyed we will rebuilt.
Well, today with great satisfaction
I’m leaning on this first round filter
manufactured after the earthquake.
We worked hard to make this assembly line operational working even yesterday, on Sunday.
This is the first filter, and as you can see behind me
there is a whole series of filters coming out of this improvised assembly line.
Together with our colleagues we will now toast to this first filter
We are all happy and very pleased with what we have done
We would have liked to launch this filter as they do with ships,
but if we throw a bottle against the it
we might ruin this beautiful piece of equipment.
So let’s uncork the bottle and drink the content as a virtual launch.