Haskell’s David Clark, left, and Eric Lightner, right, are pictured with Dan Izhaky, CEO, United Safety Technology Inc.

March 30, 2022

Haskell Designing Factory Where UST Will Reshore PPE Production

The project will quickly produce billions of sterile gloves, growing in three phases with investment up to $350 million and creating 2,000 American jobs.

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Years of offshoring jobs and manufacturing processes created supply chain breaks that left the United States with critical shortages of personal protective equipment (PPE) when the COVID-19 pandemic struck.

With the design of a 735,000-square-foot new manufacturing facility in Baltimore, Maryland, Haskell is helping United Safety Technologies Inc. (UST) repatriate thousands of jobs and produce billions of sterile nitrile gloves per year.

“We’re a team leading the movement to bring lifesaving (personal protective equipment) production back to our shores,” said Dan Izhaky, CEO of United Safety Technology. “We can protect the safety and security of our communities in America. Not only is it a noble mission, but it’s also an exciting one.”

Haskell leaders joined local and state leaders in Baltimore, Maryland, for the ribbon-cutting at UST’s new manufacturing facility. From left are David Clark, Director of Project Development; Maryland Governor Larry Hogan; Rick Elyar, Director of Business Development; Erik Lightner, Vice President of Consumer Products; and Dave Bartels, Vice President of Strategic Planning + Development.

Over the next three years, UST will invest up to $350 million in a multi-phased project to build a leading medical-grade nitrile exam glove manufacturing center at Tradepoint Atlantic. During the first phase, which is scheduled to begin operation in the first quarter of 2023, the facility will produce more than 375 million gloves per month.

By Q4 2024, UST expects to have created more than 2,000 jobs in engineering, manufacturing, operations, logistics and other functions at the site.

Haskell began advising UST early in the site-selection process, providing preliminary layouts for various greenfield and brownfield facilities. Eventually, UST selected the former Bethlehem Steel Cold Mill building, built in 1999 for cold roll mill steel production and product storage. The mill went idle in 2012 and was used as a temporary storage facility from 2014 to 2019 by third-party logistics providers.

“During this concept design, we also provided our Facility Conditions Assessment Program (FCAP), which provided more than 250 observations to highlight the minor, moderate and major issues that the structure, superstructure and infrastructure have,” said Erik Lightner, Haskell Vice President of Consumer Products. “We've incorporated that into the design, as well as looking at all of the foundations to support the manufacturing equipment and the utilities that are available, which are limited.”

Haskell’s team members at the ribbon-cutting were, from left, Pablo Chaile, Senior Structural Engineer; Jose Tobar, Electrical Design Associate; Alberto Gutierrez-Moro, Senior Architect; Erik Lightner, Vice President of Consumer Products; Luis Martes, Project Manager; Rick Elyar, Director of Business Development; Dave Bartels, Vice President of Strategic Planning + Development; Joshua Crawford, Senior Design Manager; David Clark, Director of Project Development.

Much of the work done to this point has been through Haskell’s Malaysia Design Center because of the number of UST representatives there. Numerous Haskell offices will remain engaged as the company creates the facility’s complete design.

“Now we’ll look at what the full build-out will need,” Lightner said. “This will be a multi-phase project, and while we're only really looking at Phase 1 for the current upgrades, we’ll be designing for the facility to handle the subsequent phases.”

Contact Haskell’s Consumer Products team for collaboration and answers from beginning to end of your manufacturing facility project – or needs at any point in the process.

Haskell delivers $2± billion annually in Architecture, Engineering, Construction (AEC) and Consulting solutions to assure certainty of outcome for complex capital projects worldwide. Haskell is a global, fully integrated, single-source design-build and EPC firm with over 2,200 highly specialized, in-house design, construction and administrative professionals across industrial and commercial markets. With 20+ office locations around the globe, Haskell is a trusted partner for global and emerging clients.

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