Kudos to our industry partner, East/West Industries, Inc. Ronkonkoma-based EW recently donated their time and pivoted their operations to manufacture 10,000 COVID-19 masks for Suffolk County law enforcement personnel.
“East/West is an incredible company that utilized their expertise and their workers to partner with us to help protect our first responders,” said Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone. “Because of their efforts, police officers, correction officers, and deputy sheriffs now have face masks that are in line with the new CDC guidelines.”
President of East/West, Teresa Ferraro,added, “We utilized our current supply chain to assist in laser cutting all the material as we began the full sewing process in-house by utilizing our onsite staff, producing 500 to 1,000 masks per week. However, the demand was so critical that we partnered with Davis Aircraft, a local supplier, as well as a sewing consortium of local unemployed seamstresses, in order to supply the 10,000 masks as rapidly as possible.”
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About East/West Industries, Inc.
East/West is an award-winning, woman-owned small business that is committed to supporting the aerospace industry as an acclaimed partner and supplier of choice to such prime customers as Sikorsky Aircraft, Boeing, Northrop Grumman, Lockheed, Bell Helicopter, and all branches of the Department of Defense. With a growing and talented staff experienced in designing, developing, and manufacturing escape, life support, seating, and ground support equipment for high-performance military aircraft, East/West has attained a position of leadership in the industry.