When the COVID-19 pandemic hit this spring, companies large and small were faced with new existential threats. One of those threats: keeping “nonessential” employees safe at work in the midst of a dire hand sanitizer shortage.
Nearly all FDA-approved sanitization products have been directed to hospitals, first responders, and “essential” businesses, leaving only overpriced options for the hundreds of thousands of businesses deemed “nonessential.”
Two American businesses have joined forces to create a solution. Safe House, a distillery in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and Franek Technologies Inc., a California-based manufacturer of uninterruptible power supplies for laboratories, have joined forces to manufacture and distribute their own sanitizer at a fair price point geared toward empowering nonessential businesses.