PPB June 2020

Supplier Baden Sports in Renton, Washington, donated 15,000 protective face masks to help combat the spread of the coronavirus in Washington State. The face masks were given to local health-care workers serving on the frontlines of the pandemic at hospitals and long-term care facilities in King County, where the outbreak has been particularly severe. Family-owned Baden Sports has operated in South King County for more than 40 years. SnugZ USAWorks To MeetThe Increasing Demand For PPE In April, supplier SnugZ USA added a new, critical project to its production schedule. The West Jordan, Utah-based company began die-cutting and kitting the first one million pieces of a five-million-piece order of medical-grade face masks for use by doctors, nurses and medics fighting COVID-19 on the front lines within the Utah-based Intermountain Healthcare Network (IHC) of hospitals and clinics, and the University of Utah Health Affiliate Network. Baden leveraged its global supply chain to procure the face masks, which were delivered to Highline Medical Center in Burien and Valley Medical Center in Renton, among other facilities nominated by its employees. The SnugZ team die-cut the masks from medical-grade non-woven polypropylene, kitting them and providing the logistics to get the masks to a distribution center. Once there, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints provided, through its resources, home-based volunteers who sewed and assemble the masks. Then they were sterilized and distributed. SnugZ President Brandon Mackay, MAS, says two employees worked full time on this project, and he deployed $60,000 in capital expense to fulfill the order. Baden Sports Donates 15,000 Face Masks To Fight COVID-19 | JUNE 2020 | 91 CONNECT