ASK AIMCAL Serves As A Clearinghouse To Link Supply And Demand During Coronavirus Pandemic

ASK AIMCAL helps suppliers and buyers at all points in the roll-to-roll materials-converting supply chain locate the resources needed to fight the coronavirus pandemic. 
 
The ASK AIMCAL clearinghouse service at www.aimcal.org/ask-aimcal.html can help identify suppliers of raw and finished materials for products vital to the COVID-19 response as well as organizations with manufacturing capacity available to address pandemic-generated needs. 
 
“By working together, we can fill gaps and connect those that need resources with those that have or could produce the required products and materials to protect the healthy and heal the sick,” says Dante Ferrari, AIMCAL president and president of Celplast Metallized Products (Toronto, Ontario, Canada), a producer of flexible barrier materials for food packaging and industrial applications. 
 
AIMCAL members operate globally supplying a wide range of materials and related equipment and services for many industries including: 

• Packaging materials that keep foods and medicines safe and protected from the farm field
  and factory to the consumer
• Raw materials for PPE (personal protective equipment) for medical workers as well as face masks
  for the average citizen 
• Materials and components for the respiratory ventilators that are needed to save the lives
  of those with the most serious COVID-19 infections
• Machines and parts that keep critical production lines running

AIMCAL’s mission is to help “Educate. Connect. Grow.” the roll-to-roll material converting industry worldwide. “We have an expansive network of businesses capable of addressing virtually any need related to roll-to-roll materials,” concludes Chris Kerscher, executive director of AIMCAL. “The ASK AIMCAL platform is one way we help connect and grow the industry.”