American Health Products Manufacturing, LLC

PROJECT PURPOSE

Address systemic public health and economic challenges that have contributed to the inequal impact of the COVID-19 pandemic by establishing a world-leading glove manufacturing plant in Oklahoma, to bring glove manufacturing back to the United States, secure American access to critical medical and industrial gloves, and create more than 900 high-paying jobs. Our project will build critical PPE infrastructure to support Oklahoma's healthcare and public safety services, and make Oklahoma the U.S. leader in nitrile glove manufacturing.

EVIDENCE

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POPULATION DESCRIPTION

All of Oklahoma?s communities and vulnerable populations will benefit from our project. Specifically, Oklahomans will benefit from (1) a secure supply of critical, life-saving PPE; and (2) high-paying, permanent manufacturing and technical jobs. These are both primary Treasury goals for ARPA funding. Disposable medical and non-medical gloves are critical to our medical, public safety, and food production industries, among many others. Today, there is almost zero U.S. production of disposable protective gloves. 99.8% of the U.S. supply of gloves must be imported from Asia. When the COVID-19 crisis hit, the supply chain from Asia failed, and gloves became difficult, and often impossible, to source. Without gloves, people get sick and die. U.S. glove manufacturing capacity impacts every Oklahoman, because lack of gloves impacts the entire healthcare and public safety systems in Oklahoma. Additionally, our plant is situated just west of Oklahoma City, and will provide more than 900 high-paying, permanent jobs to workers living in dozens of surrounding Qualified Census Tracks. Our project replaces jobs lost during the Pandemic, and provides high-quality employment to hundreds of disproportionately impacted Oklahomans in surrounding vulnerable communities.

PERFORMANCE MEASURING

The project will result in a new factory in Canadian County, producing more than 6 billion gloves per year and employing more than 900 Oklahomans at an average wage exceeding $23 per hour, within 12 months of funding. Project performance will be measured against the timely completion of construction of the proposed factory, the creation of jobs in Oklahoma, and development of glove production levels to support Oklahoma's healthcare and public safety services. Required programmatic data will be supplied to Oklahoma via third-party audit reporting on construction progress, machine installation, hiring, and factory glove production through project completion (construction completed and full employment reached).

ONGOING INVESTMENT AMOUNT

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ONGOING INVESTMENT DESCRIPTION

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ONGOING INVESTMENT REQUIRED

Able to continue operation without additional funding from the State of Oklahoma