MANILA, Philippines (Updated 5:04 p.m.) — Sen. Risa Hontiveros on Monday called on government to buy more locally-made personal protective equipment (PPEs) to help protect medical frontliners and help boost local businesses. She made the call amid what she said is massive government importation of PPEs. The senator last week [...]

The CPMP said they invested $36 Million to speed up the production of protective materials, provide 57.6 million masks and three million coveralls a month to supply the needs for frontliners and meet local demand. The Coalition of Philippine Manufacturers of PPE (CPMP) and its parent organization, the Coalition of [...]

The personal protective equipment (PPE) manufacturing industry will get a shot in the arm once the Bayanihan 2 bill is passed into law. The Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) has also committed to support the sustainability of the industry by completing the value chain and ensuring a market for [...]

MANILA, PHILIPPINES (UPDATED) 'We want to dispel any thinking the manufacturers here cannot supply.... In reality, we can supply locally manufactured PPE to meet the demand,' says a Filipino maker of personal protective equipment Philippine manufacturers of personal protective equipment (PPE) urged the government to buy medical-grade masks and coveralls [...]

MANILA, Philippines — Local makers of medical-grade personal protective equipment (PPE) are ready to invest an additional $36 million to increase capacity once they get more orders from the government. In an online press conference yesterday, Coalition of Philippine Manufacturers of PPE (CPMP) executive director Rosette Carillo said the group [...]

DAVAO — The Philippines now has the capacity to manufacture high quality medical grade personal protective equipment (PPE) and surgical masks, according to the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) in its report to President Rodrigo Duterte. “When the COVID-19 pandemic started in February, the country had no local manufacturing [...]