For years, the business once known as Shields Bag and Printing Co. made a variety of bags, some to carry groceries, others for packaging ice. But for the past month, the Novolex Shields plant on West ...

Food packaging maker Novolex is retooling several of its factories to make medical equipment for health care workers and plans to produce at least 25,000 face shields and 100,000 isolation gowns a ...

The coronavirus outbreak is forcing San Luis Obispo County businesses to get creative to stay afloat — and, in some cases, completely change the products they make. Daniels Wood Land in Paso Robles — ...

A local business that is considered non-essential is changing its business model from building tree houses to fulfilling one million orders of level one protective gowns for first responders. For the ...

Film extruder Brentwood Plastics Inc. is doing its part during the COVID-19 crisis by providing flexible plastic film to U.S. manufacturers for use in impermeable isolation gowns. BPI officials in ...

NHS staff will have to treat coronavirus patients without full-length gowns as hospitals are set to run out within hours and will not have "sustainable" levels again until June. Public Health England ...

EXHAUSTED NHS medics were forced to cut up hospital curtains to make makeshift gowns due to a lack of protective clothing. Health Secretary Matt Hancock said more than 742 million pieces of Personal ...

Air Canada said Friday it would provide gowns and eyewear to flight crews to protect them from coronavirus. The company said in a memo sent to staff and seen by CBC News that it secured a supply of ...

Health minister Matt Hancock told a committee of lawmakers earlier that Britain was “tight on gowns” but had 55,000 more arriving on Friday and was aiming to get the right equipment where it was ...

The hospital, in the Bronx, said the ponchos were intended as a gift to weary workers, but several staffers said they were told to use them as protective equipment. By Brian M. Rosenthal and James ...

Standard protective equipment does not fully protect breast tissue from radiation and regularly exposed female healthcare workers need better protection to help minimise their risk of developing ...