Michigan Clear Ice pivots to making protective face masks for health care workers

This isn't about clear ice, but it is an amazing story. Instead of using the machines to make and carve ice, Michigan Clear Ice is shifting to help out health care workers with personal protective equipment (PPE).

​Peter Hardy, owner of Michigan Clear Ice, has turned off the ice-making equipment and fired up the CNC machines he had around the shop. He's now manufacturing protective face shields.

"I have a background in machining and had received a shipment of plastic for a different project I was working on," Hardy says.

"I was able to come up with a design that the hospitals wanted. It was a pretty easy decision to make."

In a post to the company’s Facebook page, Hardy solicited local suppliers of .020” PETG sheet. The post has since been shared more than 2,000 times.

Customers responded, connecting Hardy with a supplier that had enough plastic to keep him busy for at least the next two to three weeks.

Hardy estimates that the has enough material to make 5,000 face masks.

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