A southern Virginia factory, which is the only facility in the U.S. that is equipped to make medical-grade synthetic rubber for exam gloves, isn't actually making any at all. Neither are two other factories — one in Maryland, one in New Hampshire — that are supposed...
More medical gloves are coming from China, as U.S. makers of protective gear struggle
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Despite post-COVID efforts, the U.S. is still undersupplied with domestic-made PPE
Read the full article at: https://www.npr.org/2023/11/01/1210012439/despite-post-covid-efforts-the-u-s-is-still-undersupplied-with-domestic-made-ppe Nearly a billion dollars went to trying to boost domestic manufacturing of PPE like masks and gloves. Experts say the...
Firms donate PPE to Israel search and rescue
Medical device makers Dentec Safety Specialists and United Safety Technology (UST) are assisting in efforts to send aid to Israel in response to the Oct. 7 terror attacks, as part of the American Medical Manufacturers Association (AMMA). The AMMA-led effort will make...
UST partners with Dentec, AMMA to support search and rescue in Israel
United Safety Technologies is partnering with Dentec Safety Specialists and the American Medical Manufacturers Association to provide reusable respirators to ZAKA, a voluntary search and rescue organization in Israel. BALTIMORE—United Safety Technology is partnering...
The HealthIL organization
The HealthIL organization, which helps the health system implement new technologies to improve the quality of medicine, created a collaboration with SafeSource Direct, which supplies personal protective equipment, and the American Personal Medical Equipment...
Zaka volunteers continue to operate in the field: huge emergency aid has landed in Israel
Zaka volunteers continue to operate in the field: huge emergency aid has landed in Israel Quick response to the terrorist events on October 7, essential medical protective equipment was flown from the United States to the ZAKA volunteers. Among other things, a protest...
Dentec, United Safety Technology, & AMMA Join Forces to Provide 400 Reusable Organic Vapor Filtering Masks to ZAKA Israel Search and Rescue
Three leaders in domestically manufactured PPE announced today that they will make and send 400 Comfort-Air® Reusable Respirators with reusable P100OV organic vapor filters to ZAKA, Israel’s leader in Search and Rescue. United Safety Technology is partnering with...
Made in Acadiana: Local PPE manufacturer donates to Israeli search & rescue effort
Broussard, La. - Sixty thousand nitrile gloves and 24,000 procedure masks proudly made in the USA are headed to Israel, donated by SafeSource Direct and the American Medical Manufacturers Association (AMMA). These items were shipped to ZAKA Search and Rescue...
COVID-19 economy wanes along with pandemic’s urgency
Giant drugmaker Pfizer has cut its revenue forecast for the year by $9 billon, largely due to weaker-than-expected sales of the company’s COVID-19 booster and the treatment Paxlovid. Like so many darlings of the COVID economy, Pfizer has seen a dramatic reversal of...