The AZEK Company, parent company of AZEK Building Products, Versatex, Scranton Products, and Vycom, is providing custom building materials to a handful of temporary hospitals in New York and Michigan. The company is working with governments in Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Illinois to meet the states’ impending needs.
The AZEK Company’s coronavirus (COVID-19) relief efforts include shifting resources at its Vycom facility in Scranton, Pa., to product antibacterial partition materials to be used in treatment centers providing care. AZEK provided roughly 5,000 hygienic plastic sheets to the state of New York to be used as partitions at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center, which has been transformed into a 2,000-bed temporary hospital.
The AZEK Company has also designed temporary buildings, beds, and other structures for medical use at SUNY Old Westbury and SUNY Stony Brook in New York and DeVos Place Convention Center in Michigan.
The AZEK Company said once the need for field hospitals dissipates, the company will be a resource to the sites by recycling the materials into other sustainable products. The company said it is in touch with several state governments and is prepared to design and produce additional materials for emergency hospital conversions.
Chicago-based The AZEK Company operates automated building products manufacturing facilities in Wilmington, Ohio, Scranton, Pa., Aliquippa, Pa., and Eagan, Minn.
