California Startup Begins Face Mask Production

A Northern California-based startup is now in the mask making business, producing non-medical, three-ply nonwoven face masks. Salus Supply , a veteran-owned company, and the first and only nonwoven mask manufacturer on the West Coast, guarantees low prices and same-day shipping. “We bought a machine so that we could make masks in America, put local people to work and help to re-establish a critically important supply chain for personal protective equipment (PPE),” says Tovey Giezentanner, owner and founder of Salus Supply. Salus masks are made from three layers of lightweight, breathable nonwoven material, including a middle layer of meltblown fabric which provides an improved level of protection from tiny airborne particles and helps to reduce exposure to Covid-19 and bad air quality from wildfires. The movement towards wearing masks during pandemics is well documented in history and why Giezentanner, along with two investors, took to the internet to buy a mask-making machine in March 2020. After finding a company based in China with a facility in California that made and sold mask making machines, Giezentanner secured a warehouse and ordered a machine and the necessary materials to start make the masks. “Unfortunately, no one in America builds mask-making machines. […]

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