A Huron County manufacturer is using loan funding to restart production and begin producing medical grade masks. The company expects to produce thousands of masks every hour.
National Filter Inc. is reopening business and buying new machinery to make face masks for healthcare workers.
Officials said the additional equipment and workers will allow them to produce more than seven thousand surgical masks and begin producing two thousand N-95 masks each hour.
Carl Ostentoski is with the Huron County Economic Development Corporation. He said having a production line in the area will help secure local supplies.
“With the pandemic event, it put on display how fragile some of the supply chains are and having a local company producing this critical equipment - it shortens those supply chains.”
Ostentoski said having Michigan companies producing equipment will make it easier for healthcare facilities to get supplies.