The U.S. Defense Department’s $133 million in N95 respirator contracts are going to 3M (NYSE:MMM), Owens & Minor (NYSE:OMI) and Honeywell (NYSE:HON), a top DoD official said today. Ellen Lord, Undersecretary of Defense for Acquisition, said the military finalized the contracts this week — enabling the delivery of 39 million N95 masks over the next 90 days. The contracts […]
Honeywell expanding Phoenix operations, adding 500 jobs to make N95 masks
Honeywell (NYSE:HON) is adding an N95 respirator mask production line at its Phoenix aerospace plant to further boost its production of the masks — needed in the war against COVID-19. Arizona will get 500 new jobs from the manufacturing expansion. The news comes on top of Honeywell’s recent announcement that it is expanding operations at its […]
Honeywell, 3M to ramp up N95 face masks production
Both Honeywell (NYSE:HON) and 3M (NYSE:MMM) will produce millions of additional N95 respirators to protect U.S. health care workers fighting the coronavirus pandemic. Honeywell (Charlotte, N.C.) said yesterday that it will expand operations at its Smithfield, R.I. eye protection products plant so that the plant can also manufacture millions of N95 masks. Honeywell said it will immediately […]
7 medtech stories we missed this week: Oct. 20, 2017
From InspireMD’s distribution deal to RenalGuard touting a new study, here are seven medtech stories we missed this week but thought were still worth a mention. 1. InspireMD inks Chile distribution deal InspireMD announced in an Oct. 12 press release that it has signed a distribution deal with CorpMedical Chile to distribute the MGuard Prime […]
