Medical glove plant established in Greenville.

• Position: Health Supply US, Greenville, South Carolina

The call for domestic PPE continues to be answered.

At the Greenville Area Development Corp.'s annual meeting held today at the Westin Poinsett Greenville, Health Supply US shared its plans to invest more than $150 million in a manufacturing base in Greenville.

The Mooresville, N.C.-based company will produce 4.3 billion nitrile gloves per year at the 1 Quality Way plant in the Beechtree Business Park, according to a news release. The operations will be called Glove One and are expected to employ 600 workers during the next five years.

"Health Supply US is dedicated to bringing critical medical supply chains back to the United States, "Christopher Garcia, CEO of the company's U.S. operations, said in the release. "Nitrile gloves are a vitally needed medical item that keep our frontline health care professionals and first responders safe, an item that we simply cannot rely completely on international markets for our domestic supply in the future."

The company supplies the governments at all levels, as well as private health care systems with Class I medical devices and products such as medical isolation gowns.

"We embarked on this critical project on behalf of our nation, and in doing so, knew that manufacturing site selection was of paramount importance to operational longevity," Health Supply US Executive Vice President Aaron Petrosky said in the release. "Greenville and the entire state of South Carolina displayed tremendous enthusiasm for life sciences and support for this medical device operation. We'd like to thank all those involved from the Lowcountry to the Midlands to the Upstate that enabled this project to find its Greenville home for many decades to come."

The company purchased the 182-acre property for $6.5 million this February from Beech Tree Inc., according to Greenville Property records data. The business park was developed by Hughes Investments and also holds Maritec Corp., Ellcon National, Alfmeier Corp., Specialty Bar Products, Cintas and FW Tool & Die Co.

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