Unified Brands Invents COVID-19 Enclosure Box

Written by Ryan Blackburn | Apr 20, 2020 6:34:34 PM
Long-time DeanHouston client Unified Brands’ manufacturing center in Weidman, MI, is proving its custom capabilities in new ways as they step up to meet a need in the community for frontline health care workers battling COVID-19. Unified Brands has created a COVID-19 enclosure box that fits over the heads of patients during the process of intubation, when a tube is inserted into a patient’s airway to help with breathing.
 

During the intubation process, the potential for spreading COVID-19 to the health care workers is at its greatest, thus Unified Brands thought outside of the box and created a prototype box that would help limit that potential.

Unified Brands manufactures commercial food service equipment and is most recognized in the state of Michigan under Randell (refrigeration) and Avtec (ventilation).

The enclosure box concept was the brainchild of manufacturing engineering manager Brad Heil and his wife Leah.

This article is courtesy of Jim Lahde at The Morning Sun.