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personal protective equipment

Mar 14, 2022

Owens & Minor donates PPE to Ukraine

Mechanicsville-based Fortune 500 health care logistics company  Owens & Minor announced Monday that it is donating $500,000 in medical-grade personal protective equipment to support humanitarian relief in Ukraine and other impacted countries. The donations, which includes exam gloves, masks and gowns, was coordinated across distribution centers in Chicago, Pittsburg and Philadelphia to speed [...]

Blue Star NBR LLC is building a plant to produce medical gloves in Wythe County’s Progress Park. Photo by Earl Neikirk
Feb 27, 2022

Glove affair

You can hear the pride in Bill Mosher’s voice when he talks about his dad, Ken Mosher, and his career in the medical glove business. “He was in the glove industry for almost 50 years,” Bill Mosher says incredulously. Ken Mosher’s storied career includes being part of a team that in 1990 invented the nitrile […]

Oct 27, 2020

Va. allocates $116M CARES funding for higher ed

As public universities and medical centers have depleted previously allocated federal dollars, Gov. Ralph Northam is directing more than $116 million in federal CARES Act funding to higher education institutions in Virginia, the governor announced Tuesday. Funding will go to public universities and medical centers in support of telework, distance learning, personal protective equipment, sanitizati[...]

Oct 8, 2020

Va. Beach PPE manufacturer will create 180 jobs with $5.3M expansion

Premium-PPE, a manufacturer of AmeriShield branded masks and personal protective equipment, will invest $5.3 million to expand its Virginia Beach operations, creating 180 jobs, Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam announced Thursday. Premium-PPE is a subsidiary of Premium Estore LLC (doing business as PremiumEcigarettes), an e-cigarette product manufacturer that in March began operating as Premium-PPE to f[...]

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