(LITITZ, Pa-LititzDailyNews.com)- With the live event industry idled by the COVID-19 pandemic, TAIT Towers, known for it’s stunning and innovative sets and lighting for live performances, pivoted to design and manufacture products meant to keep people alive.
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TAIT employees deliver face shields to Operation Emerald for distribution to healthcare workers and first responders. Photo:TAIT and Operation Emerald.
Over 2,000 face shields were manufactured at the Lititz headquarters of TAIT for the non-profit Emerald Foundation, which distributes them to healthcare workers and first responders, according to a TAIT post on social media this morning.
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Moravian Manor in Lititz announced on April 27 that it received a donation of face shields made by TAIT, as well as other personal protective equipment (PPE), from Emerald Foundation’s “Operation Emerald.”
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Barriers manufactured by TAIT in Lititz. Photo: TAIT
TAIT also constructed larger items to protect essential employees from airborne droplets, including 6,500 cashier/sneeze guards for pharmacies, hospitals, and stores.
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“The local Board of Elections requested a similar product, known as polling place election barriers, to protect election workers and voters,” according to the post. The company has produced 1,100 to date for counties around the state.
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After advertising their services on social media, “we gathered a task force at our local offices and met with local community leaders in government and healthcare to better understand what was really needed,” the post reads.
TAIT UK employees manufacture barriers to separate ambulance drivers from patients.
Meanwhile, the TAIT team in Great Britain partnered with a group that builds emergency response vehicles to create barriers between drivers and patients in ambulances. TAIT UK employees worked seven days a week to design, fabricate and deploy over 200 such barriers.
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TAIT chose to not publicize its efforts, but went public this morning to thank its employees. Recipients, like Moravian Manor, had already been posting about their efforts.
TAIT laid off 257 of its Pennsylvania workforce on March 30, according to the Pennsylvania state layoff notification WARN system listings, which indicates that the layoffs were submitted as “Temporary and Permanent layoffs due to COVID-19.”
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