The Mass. Manufacturing Community
Responds to COVID-19
MassTech Leads the Work of the Manufacturing Emergency Response Team
The leaders of the Baker-Polito Administration’s Advanced Manufacturing Collaborative including Housing and Economic Development Secretary Mike Kennealy and Mike Tamasi, President and CEO of AccuRounds established the Manufacturing Emergency Response Team (MERT) to assist in the response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The MERT’s Mission:
To support Massachusetts manufacturers in pivoting their operations to produce needed materials in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
For the first two months of the pandemic response, the emergency response team included representatives from: Massachusetts Life Sciences Center, Advanced Functional Fabrics of America (AFFOA), MIT, MIT Lincoln Labs, the University of Massachusetts Lowell, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, the Massachusetts Manufacturing Extension Partnership (MassMEP), Associated Industries of Massachusetts (AIM), and multiple industry partners. Many thanks to the experts who tirelessly contributed to the emergency response.
Going forward, Massachusetts continues to support its manufacturers wishing to pivot operations to produce the following priority items in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
- N95 Masks
- Surgical Masks
- General Purpose Face Coverings
- Face Shields
- Surgical Gowns S/M/L/XL
- Sanitizer
The MassTech Collaborative will continue to oversee efforts in partnership with MassMEP.
Support provided includes:
- Ongoing consultation with MassMEP’s manufacturing advisors;
- Checklists and templates for understanding the readiness of your products for market; and
- Referrals to testing resources for products requiring testing for compliance purposes.
If you are a Massachusetts manufacturer and your organization is interested in joining the effort, please fill out the form below and an MERT member will reach out.
- Only one response per organization should be submitted.
- Please provide a central contact for follow up by a MERT team member. For your convenience, there is space provided for additional contact information.
Information submitted on this site is subject to the Massachusetts Public Records Law (M.G.L. ch. 66), and may be disclosed to the public, if requested, with limited exceptions. Please do not include any confidential information on this site as we are unable to guarantee protection or non-disclosure of confidential information.