Game-Maker Spin Master Produces 200,000 Face
Shields for Hospitals, Nursing Homes and Shelters
TORONTO, May 1, 2020 /PRNewswire/ - Spin Master Corp.
("Spin Master" or the "Company") (TSX:TOY, www.spinmaster.com) a
leading global children's entertainment company, has transformed
its popular family guessing game, Hedbanz, to produce
much-needed face shields for front-line healthcare workers in the
fight against COVID-19.
With a long history of giving back to the community, Spin Master
employees felt compelled to help with the growing need for PPE for
front-line healthcare workers. In just three days, the Company's
product development team came up with an ingenious solution using
existing headbands from the Hedbanz game, along with plastic
(polyethylene terephthalate or PET) inserts, to create a face
shield for healthcare workers.
Close to 200,000 face shields have been produced in three
facilities in Mexico and are now
in use in over 100 hospitals, nursing homes and shelters across
North America including
Toronto, New York, California and Mexico. Spin Master is committed to
manufacturing the face shields, currently producing more than
20,000 a day for healthcare workers, as long as they are
needed.
"One of the most powerful tools we have in this fight is our
imagination, and it's amazing what the people at Spin Master have
done with theirs. The face shields they've created are helping our
teams care for our ill patients and look after pregnant women and
newborns. Our mobile teams are using them as they track COVID-19 in
long-term care homes and shelters, and our doctors as they perform
urgent cancer surgeries - they're making a difference everywhere."
Dr. Ruth Heisey, Chief of Family and
Community Medicine and Medical Director Peter Gilgan Centre for
Women's Cancers, Women's College Hospital.
"Front-line healthcare workers are risking their lives and
spending countless hours away from their families to help those
suffering from COVID-19. Together, with our employees, we are
helping to provide some level of comfort and ease anxiety for
nurses, doctors, admitting staff, personal service workers and so
many more people who are the real heroes in this pandemic," said
Ronnen Harary, Co-CEO of Spin
Master.
An internal team at Spin Master is coordinating requests from
outside organizations and arranging for deliveries daily. The
shields, which are non-medical grade, have been individually packed
in a sanitary environment and offer protection for those on the
front lines.
To request face shields for front-line healthcare workers please
email communications@spinmaster.com with the subject line: Face
Shield Request. Spin Master teams are working around the clock in
an effort to meet every request.
About Spin Master
Spin Master (TSX:TOY;
www.spinmaster.com) is a leading global children's entertainment
company that creates, designs, manufactures, licenses and markets a
diversified portfolio of innovative toys, games, products and
entertainment properties. Spin Master is best known for
award-winning brands including Zoomer®, Bakugan®, Erector® by
Meccano®, Hatchimals®, Air Hogs® and PAW Patrol®. Since 2000, Spin
Master has received 110 TIA Toy of The Year (TOTY) nominations with
30 wins across a variety of product categories, including 13 TOTY
nominations for Innovative Toy of the Year. To date, Spin
Master has produced nine television series, including the
relaunched Bakugan: Battle Planet and current hit PAW
Patrol, which is broadcast in over 160 countries and
territories globally. Spin Master employs over 1,800 people
in countries around the world including Canada, United
States, Mexico,
France, Italy, United
Kingdom, Russia,
Slovakia, Poland, Germany, Sweden, the
Netherlands, China,
Hong Kong, Japan, Vietnam and Australia.
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