Source: Virginia Annable, HICKORY RECORD, 4/20/20


Hickory furniture manufacturer HBF and HBF Textiles is switching gears to make cloth masks and medical gowns to help with the nationwide shortage of medical protective equipment needed during the COVID-19 pandemic. HBF and other subsidiaries of HNI Corporation, a large office furniture manufacturing company, are making and donating personal protective equipment to local first responders like firefighters, health-care workers, hospice workers, hospitals and the Novant Health system, according to a news release and HBF president Dan Chong.

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