Dec 10 2009
Nano Mask, Inc. (PINKSHEETS: NANM) today
announced that it has entered into a three year agreement with Wein
Products, a manufacturer of disposable respirators, to distribute that
company's products as it continues to complete the development of its own
proprietary disposable NanoMask respirator and to obtain regulatory
approval for the NanoMask. The company is pleased to report that it has
begun shipping orders of the Wein Products respirators.
Nano Mask has already entered into an agreement with a medical products
company in Turkey to represent the Wein Products respirators in that
country; this distributor covers Bulgaria, Cyprus, Greece and Romania as
well as Turkey. The company has also signed a similar distribution
agreement with a U.S. medical products distributor and expects to enter
into similar agreements with a number of additional U.S. distributors. In
addition, Nano Mask has held discussions with distributors in Asia and
South America and hopes to enter into distribution agreements in those
areas.
"Strong demand for disposable respirators has given rise to an opportunity
for us to generate what we believe will be a strong revenue stream and,
equally important, build a strong distribution network that we will be able
to access for our NanoMask," said Doug Heath, President and CEO, Nano Mask.
"The Wein products offer an excellent alternative to many respirators on
the market today as its Advanced Strapless adhesion technology offers
disposable, one size fits all, personal respiratory protection."
Mr. Heath added, "We continue to make great strides in finalizing the
development of the NanoMask and in formulating a strategy to obtain the
requisite regulatory approvals needed to market our mask in Europe and the
United States. Recently, the FDA and the European regulators have
significantly tightened their regulatory standards in an effort to rid the
marketplace of unscrupulous makers and marketers of respirators who have
been making unsupportable claims in order to capitalize on the swine flu
pandemic. This regulatory tightening has measurably slowed our regulatory
application process. As a result, the opportunity to generate near term
revenues while we finalize our own product offering was too great to
forego."
SOURCE: Nano Mask, Inc. (Emergency Filtration Products, Inc.)