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As America has pushed to onshore production of a variety of goods, Bosma Enterprises has been at the forefront of this effort with its flagship product, nitrile gloves.
Before the pandemic, the U.S. manufactured roughly 500 million nitrile examination gloves annually. At the height of the pandemic, American health care providers were using 1.8 billion gloves every week.
After decades of shifting production overseas, the United States had become heavily dependent on foreign countries for some of the most basic supplies used in hospitals and health care facilities.
Bringing manufacturing back to the United States is essential to creating American jobs and reducing our dependence on foreign countries, and nowhere is this more essential than in critical personal protective equipment, or PPE.
At Bosma Enterprises, we’re demonstrating how American companies can lead that effort.
Bosma Enterprises has been proudly serving the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) for over 25 years. Even before the pandemic, Bosma understood the challenges posed by a 100% foreign supply and began an extensive effort to establish a dependable domestic supply of medical examination gloves. We have evaluated nearly two dozen American manufacturers, conducted rigorous product testing, and worked to ensure that gloves manufactured in America meet or exceed the federal government’s rigorous quality and volume requirements.
When the VA moved to require domestically manufactured nitrile examination gloves, Bosma had American-made inventory to meet 100 percent of its requirement.
Today, Bosma offers several manufactured-in-America nitrile examination gloves through the AbilityOne Program. We distribute more than 750 million gloves annually to VA facilities and other federal customers.
In an industry that had become overwhelmingly dependent on foreign production, Bosma has led the way in restoring domestic capacity on a substantial scale while maintaining the quality and reliability that federal health care recquires.
As a veteran myself, it’s an honor to lead this company and serve the men and women who have served our country. We are committed to strengthening America’s domestic manufacturing supply chain and encourage U.S.-based manufacturing partners to visit our website to explore a potential supplier relationship.
Bringing manufacturing back to the United States also provides special economic opportunities for Americans with disabilities. Bosma is Indiana’s largest employer of people who are blind or visually impaired. Our team members perform essential work supporting the production, quality assurance, and distribution of hundreds of millions of medical products annually.
Indiana is particularly well positioned to lead the resurgence of American manufacturing. Our state has one of the nation’s highest concentrations of manufacturing employment and a long history of industrial leadership.
At Bosma, we are proud to contribute to that tradition by helping restore critical manufacturing capacity to the United States, strengthening the domestic supply of essential medical products, and creating meaningful employment for Americans who are blind or visually impaired.
As we prepare to honor those who have served this Veterans Day, Bosma Enterprises is proud of our work to ensure that the veterans who depend on our health care system always have reliable access to the medical supplies they need.
Bosma Enterprises is proud to do our part to bring production back to the United States, creating vital jobs while securing supply chains.