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Upfront Manufacturing
A BETTER BARRIER
After stepping up to address pandemic demand for PPE
garments, Lac-Mac president Shelley Lamb-White looks
to the future of specialized healthcare garments
IT'S PROBABLY FAIR to say that at no point did Shelley
Lamb-White expect her life's work to revolve around the
design and manufacture of reusable PPE garments.
But she does have the satisfaction of knowing the products
her company makes are helping to improve human health,
and in some cases save human lives.
Lamb-White is the president of Lac-Mac. Located at 847
Highbury Avenue North, Lac-Mac (www.lac-mac.com) is
North America's leading manufacturer
of reusable technical textile products
for applications in healthcare, industrial
chemical protection and the
utility sectors.
What started as co-op placement
Lac-Mac president, Shelley Lamb-White
Last year, Lamb-White helped increase Canada's
production capacity for PPE garments during the pandemic,
and she is now focusing on the development of new products
that will be needed as the world adjusts to the realities of
post-pandemic life.
" THEY ARE SOME OF THE MOST EXPENSIVE,
BUT ALSO SAFEST, PRODUCTS IN THE
MARKET " -Shelley Lamb-White
in 1981 led to a full-time job, and
40 years later, Lamb-White is the first female president
in the company's 100-year history. She owns patents in
Canada and the U.S. for an award-winning surgical gown,
and over the course of her career has worked with leading
raw material manufacturers to develop technical-barrier
textiles for PPE products.
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With the arrival of Covid-19 last year, Lamb-White
led Lac-Mac to double its manufacturing capacity for
healthcare PPE for frontline workers. " Even having all 70
employees in our factory work on those products, " she says,
" we could not keep up with the demand. "
To overcome this challenge, Lamb-White collaborated
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