Calgary-based manufacturer creates country’s first supply of 100% compostable PPE – CBC

Company pivoted to PPE material when COVID-19 hit oil and gas business

Aug 16, 2021

A Calgary-based company is now making Canada’s first 100 per cent compostable protective medical equipment.

According to a release, PPE manufacturer Roswell Downhole Technologies Inc., merged with Precision ADM, a medical device company and global engineering and manufacturing solutions provider based in Winnipeg.

The move will create 350 jobs in the two prairie cities.

Prior to the partnership, Kyle Fiolka, president of Roswell, says their company’s specialty was making downhole cables for oil and gas well monitoring.

But the COVID-19 pandemic pushed them to switch gears.

“We were in oil and gas producing tubing, but our asset was actually our ability to invent and innovate new processes because that’s actually what we had spent most of our careers doing,” he said.

Read more: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/roswell-ppe-compost-precision-covid-1.6141752