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> 3M and Prestige Ameritech are the only companies with the ability to manufacturing N95 masks in the US from US sourced materials. I'm confused about your ita
by mehrdadn 7y ago
> 3M and Prestige Ameritech are the only companies with the ability to manufacturing N95 masks in the US from US sourced materials.
I'm confused about your italics. Why does it matter where the source materials you give them comes from? i.e. Why would other manufacturers in the US be only able to manufacture masks from non-US-sourced-materials, but fail on US-sourced materials? Is there something defective with US-sourced materials that if you gave them to US-based manufacturers, their machines would break or something?
- afiori 7y agoIt could be a matter of having the whole process happen in the US. In the sense that those 2 companies are the only one that have sufficient domestic supply chain for production, while all other companies need to rely on import.
- mehrdadn 7y agoBut if that's the case then you could get source materials from one of these companies and give them to another manufacturer who normally ships from overseas, right? Like I'm saying in that case the issue seems to be lack of sufficient source materials in the US, not US manufacturing capability?
- ardy42 7y agoBut in any case, the supply chains of companies that use overseas materials have been disrupted. With effort, they could probably switch to using materials from a domestic manufacturer, but those manufacturers may not have the capacity to satisfy the increased demand. Per the OP, it seems like the limiting factor in production is melt-blown fabric.