West Haven, CT Business, Thermaxx, Is Making Our 2020 COVID-19 Super Hero’s Capes 

Located on Farwell St. in West Haven, CT, Thermaxx is run by 75 employees and has been in business in CT for 25 years. The CFO, Larry Campana, received a phone call from the owner of Thermaxx one day with a promise to a Fire Chief that he had to keep –

“We have a joke at Thermaxx that our owner makes promises and it’s our job to keep those promises. So he called us and said ‘hey, I just promised a fire chief we were going to make him 10 medical gowns.”

Before announcing their decision to make protective gowns, Thermaxx was faced with the decision of what to do. Like all businesses in the world right now, the decision was to shut their doors or figure something else out. Luckily, the Thermaxx team figured out the “something else”, now it’s about the how, how do you create protective gowns?

Four prototypes later, Thermaxx created a disposable gown, made of house wrap, readily available.

“It actually makes sense because what we are trying to do is to keep things out, keep out moisture and particles and that’s what you wrap a house in when it’s under construction. You wrap it so things can’t get in,” says Campana during a WTNH interview.

Thermaxx quickly converted its insulation blanket factory line to make the promised disposable gowns for first responders.

Before March, this Connecticut-based manufacturer had never made a product for humans, but now that they do, they’re sharing their knowledge.

According to TJ McCue, of Medium.com, “Within two days of announcing their disposable gown over 2,000 were requested by over 40 organizations from hospitals to fire departments. By April 1st, 130 groups had requested more than 5,000 gowns from Thermaxx.”

According to Campana, Fire departments, EMS and nursing homes were leaving compelling comments on the company web page, saying, “We are out. We are in dire need. Our need is immediate. We will come and pick it up.”

Thermaxx can barely keep up, but with what needs they can fill, they’re doing so by donating and absorbing all of the cost. Not only that, but they are also making their gown design available to the public.. Campana proudly says, “We just have an incredible group of people, that’s doing the right thing. It’s amazing.

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