New Partnership provides medical equipment

Apr 21, 2020 | 1:39 PM

PRINCE GEORGE— They say necessity is the mother of invention, and a new partnership has identified a huge need globally.

“So the STL file is basically information that goes to a slicing software and slicing software disseminates that file into different layers, which is what 3D printers do. They break every creation into layers,” explains Dan Broadfoot, a former sheet metal worker turned 3D Printer entrepreneur and owner of Hollywood Fabricating.

“The requests we were receiving far exceeded what we could produce.”

That is what has transpired with the medical equipment Dr. Malgorzata Kaminska and her husband, Richard, began making, also with a 3D printer.

She was a budding physician in Toronto when another pandemic, SARS, struck. She is well-familiar with the kind of apprehension a viral pandemic can create in the medical community. She and her husband started making much-needed medical equipment. But with the COVID-19 pandemic, the need for Personal Protective Equipment has been intense. The two joined forces.

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They create things like ear protectors. Those are strips of rigged plastic that join the elastic on face masks at the back of the head so as to avoid the irritation the masks create to the backs of the ears when the masks are worn for long periods of time.

“Some of the biggest shipments we’ve had has been to police departments,” explains Dr. Kaminska.

For now, the partnership addresses a significant need for First Responders locally and abroad. What of the future?

“We’re working on that,” hints Broadfoot.

by Cheryl Jahn

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