A Paramus-based company that specializes in restaurant interiors and jewelry showcases has repurposed its factory to produce protective gear for medical workers battling the coronavirus outbreak.
Pac Team Group, a 70-year-old company, has set up its Chicago-based production center to make 5,000 protective face shields per week but can “easily expand to 10,000 per week if needed,” it said in a press release shared with NJ Advance Media.
Pac Team Group President and co-owner Eric Zuckerman described the changes to the Chicago factory as a “win-win” situation.
“I am very hopeful. If we can supply 5,000 per week, we can cover our operation’s cost," Zuckerman said. “Everybody on the shop floor can keep working full-time and our country will have another reliable domestic source producing personal protective equipment.”
Zuckerman said he began to consider implementing changes in the company when a stay-at-home order was issued in Illinois on March 20, hoping to allow both Paramus employees and his colleagues in Chicago to keep working.
“I started thinking of what machinery we have and how we could help support the medical community facing a PPE shortage,” Zuckerman said. "When I saw that face shields were desperately needed, I saw a path and knew we could do that well.”
The team began researching and engineering face shields the following morning, and within a day’s time had completed multiple prototypes. Within less than a week, factory workers were receiving bulk materials, applying for testing and certification to produce the shields and beginning to engage with city and state governments to discuss their distribution.
"When Eric said Pac Team would be producing face shields, I was so proud to be helping others during this time and also relieved that I could keep working,” Juan Baez, a carpenter for Pac Team Group, said.
In addition to the Chicago facility, Pac Team Group has been converting its operations in Europe and Asia to secure additional personal protective equipment, including N95 masks, disposable masks, face shields, goggles, gloves and gowns.
The company has also begun repurposing its manufacturing facility in China to produce over 30,000 face shields per week, and is actively identifying and investigating FDA-registered manufacturers and coordinating their production and import of essential medical supplies to the United States and Europe.
Antonio Schiano Lomoriello, vice president of project development for Pac Team’s U.S. operation, expressed his desire for other companies to recognize Pac Team Group as a reliable manufacturer and distributor of personal protective gear.
“We are fortunate that we have a sizable sourcing and quality control operation there that cannot only find sources but investigate their integrity and physically inspect the product before exporting it,” Schiano Lomoriello said.
“This is what we do, we have been doing it for decades and we do it extremely well.”
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