A South Surrey company that began manufacturing medical masks near the end of last year has officially received Health Canada approval and certification.

Eternity Medical Equipment , and in December began producing ECAN95 particulate respirator masks B次元官网网址� equivalent to the N95 masks in the U.S.

The masks were tested at a CSA Group facility in Toronto, where they passed all applicable tests, including quantitative fit testing, airflow resistance tests, and filtering efficiency.

B次元官网网址淲eB次元官网网址檝e had great reception and reviews so far for our ECAN95, and have been diligently working towards certification since the beginning,B次元官网网址� Jeffrey Wang, co-founder of Eternity Medical Equipment, said in a news release issued Monday.

B次元官网网址淲e are proud of our masks and pleased that our ECAN95 is the first Canadian-made mask to receive official CSA-certification. We started this journey back in April, and to know our masks are now being used across British Columbia and the country to help fight the pandemic is very humbling to us.B次元官网网址�

In a news release last November announcing the companyB次元官网网址檚 launch, Wang said he was motivated to start the company after seeing B次元官网网址渉ow hard it was for our frontline workers to get N95 and surgical masks from overseas.B次元官网网址�

B次元官网网址淚 really wanted to spearhead an initiative to get them made on Canadian soil, right here in British Columbia,B次元官网网址� he added.

According to MondayB次元官网网址檚 release, Eternity Medical Equipment B次元官网网址� which operates out of a B次元官网网址渟tate of the artB次元官网网址� 13,000 square-foot space B次元官网网址� can produce up to 2.5 million masks per month at full capacity.

The company expects its masks to receive certification from the Centre for Disease ControlB次元官网网址檚 National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health later this month.

editorial@peacearchnews.com
Like us on and follow us on