A Peterborough company has received an expedited approval from Health Canada to produce personal protective equipment (PPE) during the coronavirus pandemic.
According to Peterborough-Kawartha MP Maryam Monsef, Harco Enterprises Ltd. has received approval to manufacture and distribute a COVID-19 medical device to be called the Harco Face Shield.
Global News Peterborough first profiled the company earlier this month. Vice-president Terry Harris said the company was inspired to help after seeing the 3D printing community print headbands for a face shield. “We thought we could make injection mold tooling to produce similar components,” he said in a statement. “We decided on a popular open source design being used, then from a sample our team