The efforts will increase critical equipment as hospitals combat the coronavirus The U.S. military is 3D-printing face shields, designing reusable plastic N95 masks and sewing surgical masks to ...

Respiratory protection is of utmost importance in the workplace. Millions of people work in potentially harmful environments that contain harmful dusts, toxic fumes, smokes, fogs, sprays, and so on.

Six months into the COVID-19 pandemic, the world is still short of N95 respirators (i.e. masks) -- a product most people probably knew nothing about before this year. Here in California, we've been ...

Continuous Composites engineers are teaming up with a local manufacturer to produce reusable N95 masks that could help ease the shortage of protective equipment needed by medical personnel and ...

Though statewide coronavirus mask mandates have expired, many people have opted to continue wearing them to keep germs and other airborne viruses at bay. And with face masks now a common wardrobe ...

For the last few years Kevin Ngo has spent his nights and weekends developing a new kind of reusable face mask. After calling in favors from friends all over Silicon Valley, the resulting Flo Mask is ...

Nurses and doctors have gone to creative extremes to reuse the same masks, gloves and scrubs they need to treat contagious coronavirus patients. But if a prototype mask created by researchers proves ...

In a recent study published in The American Journal of Medicine, researchers assessed 3D printed masks as an alternative to N95 respirators. Study: Face Off: 3D Printed Masks as a Cost-Effective and ...

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Experts say the U.S. government has unintentionally encouraged a dependency on imported masks by failing to promote elastomeric respirators, a reusable mask that is domestically produced. By Andrew ...