Increased demand for acrylic plastic to make sneeze guards is already causing shortages. hereandnow
Businesses from grocery stores to nail salons are using plastic dividers or sneeze guards to create distance between employees and customers.
The need for plexiglass goes beyond grocery stores: ePlastics is working with banks, hospitals, growers, nurseries, the Navy and “anybody who has any kind of contact between customers and employees,” he says. “Everybody has some kind of different application and configuration they need to put in place … to allow potentially a pass-through for documents or money or a speaking hole,” he says
More than 50% of the company’s business comes from the Eastern Time Zone, and Short says he’s receiving a lot of orders from the southern part of this area. He says the company is also seeing a significant amount of orders from places such as Texas and Arizona.“There's a national shortage across not just our business, but lots of different industries,” he says.
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