Respiratory protection is of utmost importance in the workplace. Millions of people work in potentially harmful environments that contain harmful dusts, toxic fumes, smokes, fogs, sprays, and so on.

The efforts will increase critical equipment as hospitals combat the coronavirus The U.S. military is 3D-printing face shields, designing reusable plastic N95 masks and sewing surgical masks to ...

Though statewide coronavirus mask mandates have expired, many people have opted to continue wearing them to keep germs and other airborne viruses at bay. And with face masks now a common wardrobe ...

Six months into the COVID-19 pandemic, the world is still short of N95 respirators (i.e. masks) -- a product most people probably knew nothing about before this year. Here in California, we've been ...

For the last few years Kevin Ngo has spent his nights and weekends developing a new kind of reusable face mask. After calling in favors from friends all over Silicon Valley, the resulting Flo Mask is ...

Continuous Composites engineers are teaming up with a local manufacturer to produce reusable N95 masks that could help ease the shortage of protective equipment needed by medical personnel and ...

Bioengineers at Cambridge-based Massachusetts Institute of Technology teamed up with clinicians at Boston-based Brigham and Women’s Hospital to design N95 masks that can be sterilized for reuse. As ...

Nurses and doctors have gone to creative extremes to reuse the same masks, gloves and scrubs they need to treat contagious coronavirus patients. But if a prototype mask created by researchers proves ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. — There are plenty of online tutorials for using 3D printing to create N95-like respirators. Yet to work properly, and reduce the spread of COVID-19, these improvised respirators must ...

In a recent study published in The American Journal of Medicine, researchers assessed 3D printed masks as an alternative to N95 respirators. Study: Face Off: 3D Printed Masks as a Cost-Effective and ...

Experts say the U.S. government has unintentionally encouraged a dependency on imported masks by failing to promote elastomeric respirators, a reusable mask that is domestically produced. By Andrew ...

Stepping out during pollution season in many Indian cities feels like walking through a soft cloud that you cannot escape. The air smells burnt, your eyes sting a little, and you can almost feel the ...