Since ramping up personal protective equipment production in January, Owens & Minor CEO Ed Pesicka but that's going to take probably 5 to 6 months to make sure that you have the capability to expand that capacity,'
added shifts and expanded factory production time to meet global demand for personal protective equipment in the fight against the coronavirus pandemic.
Pesicka said Owen & Minor, which operates both domestic and foreign facilities, in January began running plants nonstop and in February expanded to four daily shifts as hospitals needed more face masks and surgical gowns to care for an high rate of patients diagnosed with the novel COVID-19, which has spread from China to across the globe.
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