Here's what it's like inside the Chicago-area factory aiming to end US overreliance on Asia's PPE production:
The US Medical Glove Company, or USMGC, wants to turn a profit -- but also to reduce US reliance on imports of medical gloves from the Far East, especially China and Thailand, while creating American jobs that pay well beyond the minimum wage. It's one of several US companies on the same mission: to make America more self-reliant on essential medical equipment after the coronavirus pandemic sparked a global scramble, especially for personal protective equipment, or PPE.
Group, a Japanese company, had about 125 employees at a factory in Fayette, Alabama, making about 400 million gloves annually. The production lines were old, and higher domestic costs made a box of gloves about twice the price of Asian brands, the company told CNN. Americas marketing director tried to convince buyers to diversify their suppliers by buying at least some American-made gloves, he said. It was a tough sell."We were trapped in the ever-frustrating game of being a domestic manufacturer -- but our own country won't buy our products," Gilbert LeVerne explained.
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