We spoke to JimDAddario, chairman of the board and director of innovation at music manufacturing company D’Addario & Company, Inc., about working amid the pandemic.
is asking individuals from all sectors of the music business to share stories of how they work now, with much of the world quarantined at home and unable to take in-person meetings, attend conferences or even go into the office. Submissions for the series can be sent to [email protected]. Read the full seriesThis installment is with Jim D’Addario, chairman of the board and director of innovation at music manufacturing company D’Addario & Company, Inc.
Going to hospitals a lot, we noticed that the doctors and nurses are wearing face shields to prevent themselves from catching this illness and from transmitting it. The governor was pushing New York manufacturers to make PPE products, and we make drum heads out of the same mylar polyester film that the face shield front is made of, so we had the film in stock. We decided to get samples of what’s out there, and rip 'em apart, and see if we could make something similar.
We’re hoping tomorrow, we’ll be able to start ramping back up to full production, although we’re not working on anywhere near the same schedule that we worked on before. We had to send people in to build dividers in any areas where you couldn’t separate the machine operators by six feet. We’re making everyone wear a face mask and a face shield. We had to get another cafeteria set up, and we had to put dividers on the cafeteria tables. It looks like the visiting room at a prison.
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