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The MBA recognizes the many member companies that have shown their support to our community during the COVID-19 crisis
The MBA would like to recognize some of the many employers in our region that have contributed in various ways to the COVID-19 relief response. Please join us in thanking them, as well as our numerous health-care and support organizations, for helping our community through this time of crisis. If you would like your organization recognized in a future issue, please contact us at www.mbabizmag.com/call-for-covid-19-emergency-supply-sourcing/.
ABRAM’S NATION, LLC
4726 High Profile Drive Gibsonia, PA 15044 Website: www.abramsnation.com Contribution: Medical grade, fabric masks.
ACE WIRE SPRING & FORM CO. INC.
1105 Thomson Avenue McKees Rocks, PA 15136 Website: www.acewirespring.com Contribution: Supplied springs and wire forms for medical machines and applications in the past, and registered under the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania’s Critical Medical Supplies Procurement Portal.
AUTOMATION DEVICES, INC.
7050 West Ridge Road Fairview, PA 16415 Website: www.autodev.com Contribution: ADI is providing vibratory feeding equipment for medical companies that manufacturer Viral Transport Media, and COVID-19 test kits, and capping equipment to customers that manufacture pump components for sanitizing soaps.
BARNHART TRANSPORTATION
9251 W. Main Street North East, PA 16428 Website: www.barnhart-trans.com Contribution: Barnhart Transportation and ShipSmith are partnering with Richard Rawlings and the Gas Monkey Foundation to provide Gas Monkey Energy Drink to COVID-19 first responders and health-care workers across the country. Barnhart Transportation is donating its trucks, fuel and drivers to the effort.
C&J INDUSTRIES
760 Water Street Meadville, PA 16335 Website: www.cjindustries.com Contribution: C&J and other local businesses are working together to print and assemble face masks that are being delivered to local hospitals.
ERIE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION
459 West 6th Street Erie, PA 16507 Website: www.eriecommunityfoundation.org Contribution: Established the COVID-19 relief fund along with partners Highmark/AHN Saint Vincent, Erie Insurance, Hamot Health Foundation, United Way and the Housing Authority of the City of Erie and awarded more than $667,000 to 41 local nonprofits.
FRANKLIN BRONZE PRECISION COMPONENTS
655 Grant Street Franklin, PA 16323 Website: www.franklinbronze.com Contribution: Nonperishable food items to Community Services of Venango County for distribution to local families in need.
GANNON UNIVERSITY
109 University Square Erie, PA 16541 Website: www.gannon.edu Contribution: Engineers at Gannon University used 3D printers to make the frames for prototype face shields, which were being donated to UPMC Hamot, AHN Saint Vincent and LECOM. Also working with Industrial Sales & Mfg. , Polymer Molding Inc. and Paramount Die Corporation.
GREAT LAKES AUTOMATION SERVICES, INC.
8835 Walmer Drive McKean, PA 16426 Website: www.glasi.us Contribution: Donated its supply of protective eyewear to Allegheny Health Network St. Vincent Cancer Institute.
GUY CHEMICAL CO. INC.
150 Dominion Drive Somerset, PA 16501 Website: www.guychemical.com Contribution: Making FDA-approved hand sanitizer for first responders.
INDUSTRIAL SALES & MFG
2609 W. 12th Street Erie, PA 16505 Website: www.ismerie.com Contribution: Partnering with Gannon University to provide face shields to a team of doctors and medical staff in Erie and Cincinnati.
LOGISTICS PLUS
1406 Peach Street Erie, PA 16501 Website: www.logisticsplus.net Contribution: Working to bring supplies into the United States to support local hospitals and nursing care facilities to keep front-line doctors and nurses protected and able to function. Also assisting employers with personal protective equipment (PPE) supplies.
MATRIC GROUP
2099 Hill City Road Seneca, PA 16546 Website: www.matricgroup.com Contribution: Building personal protective face equipment with their 3D printers to assist with the current shortage. First shipment was made to NYC Presbyterian Hospital.
MUNOT PLASTICS, INC.
2935 W 17th St. Erie, PA 16505 Website: www.munotplastics.com Contribution: Working with several industry leaders to manufacture face shields for COVID-19.
PARAMOUNT DIE CORPORATION
4180 Route 6N Edinboro, PA 16412 Website: www.paramountdie.com Contribution: Partnered with Gannon University to provide face shields to a team of doctors and medical staff in Erie and Cincinnati. The company stamped more than 5,000 of them.
PENN UNITED TECHNOLOGIES
799 N. Pike Road Cabot, PA 16023 Website: www.pennunited.com Contribution: Made a rotary die to produce thousands of N95 mask fabrics.
PENN STATE BEHREND
4701 College Drive Erie, PA 16563 Website: behrend.psu.edu Contribution: Researchers at Penn State Behrend and Case Western Reserve University partnered with manufacturing companies in Erie and Ohio to produce face shields for medical professionals. Local companies include Port Erie Plastics, Munot Plastics and Bliley Technologies.
PHOENIX LASER SOLUTIONS
7799 McHenry Street Meadville, PA 16335 Website: www.phoenixlaser.com Contribution: Manufacturing aerosol boxes designed to protect doctors, nurses and other health-care professionals from infectious disease.
THE PLASTEK GROUP
2425 West 23rd Street Erie, PA 16506 Website: www.plastekgroup.com Contribution: Molding to donate face shields to protect against COVID-19.
PLASTIKOS
8165 Hawthorne Drive Erie, PA 16509 Website: www.plastikoserie.com Contribution: Medical mold company’s parts are used in several life-saving devices to treat and/or test for COVID-19.
POLYMER MOLDING INC.
1655 W 20th Street Erie, PA 16502 Website: www.polymermolding.com Contribution: PMI provided a production tool and assembly assistance to Gannon University for their protective face shield initiative. Gannon’s program will provide 6,000 face shields to hospitals and first responders in Erie County.
RED LETTER HOSPITALITY
17 Main Street North East, PA 16428 Website: www.rl-hospitality.com Contribution: Providing food for health-care workers, first responders and those organizations essential to keeping the community running safely and smoothly.
SARAH A. REED CHILDREN’S CENTER
2445 West 34th Street Erie, PA 16506 Website: www.sarahreed.org Contribution: Several of the Center’s children expressed an interest in learning how to sew and have formed a Sewing Club, led by Art & Recreational Therapy Department staff, to assist with face masks.
SZYMANSKI CONSULTING
8127 Nathan Circle Erie, PA 16509 Website: www.szy.com Contribution: Helped with monetary donations for items such as food, medicine and art supplies, as well as food in local pantries, and helped organizations working remotely from home for no cost. Also donated money and supplies to the Anna Shelter, books to the little book library and made cards for long-care nursing home residents.
TAMARACK PACKAGING
11124 Mercer Pike Meadville, PA 16335 Website: www.tamarackpackaging.com Contribution: Producing hundreds of masks for medical professionals, including the Meadville Medical Center.
TEAM HARDINGER TRANSPORTATION AND LOGISTICS
1314 W. 18th Street Erie, PA 16502 Website: www.team-h.com Contribution: Hardinger Logistics is transporting 11 loads (and counting) of mobile testing and treatment centers for FEMA to Georgia and Texas.
WABTEC
100 Airbrake Avenue Wilmerding, PA 15148 Website: www.wabteccorp.com Contribution: Partnered with Tronix3D to provide personal protective equipment (PPE) for Excela Health, a leading health system provider of advanced medical care in Pennsylvania.
II-VI INCORPORATED
375 Saxonburg Blvid. Saxonburg, PA 16056 Website: www.ii-vi.com Contribution: Shifted its operations to increase production capacity of components for molecular diagnostics testing systems.
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