COVID-19

ViSTAT™ Air Filter Technology Featured in New Company Website

IPAC has spun off its ViSTAT Air Filter Technology to a new company, BioActive Technology™. The new company is a subsidiary of IPAC created in 2025 to market a new bioactive filtration technology that actively inactivates airborne pathogens. An ablative polymer coating is the foundation of ViSTAT™ Advanced Pathogen Defense,...

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One of IPAC's VISTAT filter prototypes

IPAC Wins Mass COVID-19 Health and Safety Challenge

As reported in an earlier blog, IPAC had been selected as one of eight finalists for the Mass COVID-19 Health and Safety Challenge. The competition which still continues in a 4th and final phase, has been designed for participating companies to identify and grow innovations to slow the spread of COVID-19.   We are happy to announce that IPAC has...

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IPAC Selected in Top Eight for Mass COVID-19 Health and Safety Challenge

In its continued commitment to manufacture PPE, IPAC has been selected as one of eight finalists for the Mass COVID-19 Health and Safety Challenge.  This is the third in a series of innovation pitch competitions organized by the Innovation Institute at the Massachusetts Technology Collaborative (MassTech) and Lever, Inc. The purpose of the...

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A cutting Machine at Industrial Polymers and Chemicals

IPAC Awarded $158,000 Grant by Baker-Polito Administration for the Manufacture of PPE

As IPAC continues to focus its efforts on the manufacture and distribution of PPE during COVID-19, the company has been awarded a $158,000 Grant by the Baker-Polito Administration. The company currently manufactures isolation gowns for the medical industry and is actively engaged in the manufacture of other critically needed PPE in the...

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Industrial Polymers and Chemicals Chief Technical Officer Tom Kennedy with the company’s CNC Cutter tasked to outline and cut PPE gowns.

IPAC Named Finalist in Lever’s COVID-19 Intrapreneur Challenge

July 16, 2020 – The IPAC Blog first reported in early May that the company tooled up to make PPE gowns in conjunction with Massachusetts Manufacturing-Emergency Response Team.  As reported in today’s Telegram, less than three short months later IPAC has been named one of twelve finalists for Lever’s COVID-19...

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IPAC joins the fight against COVID-19 adding PPE Manufacturing Capabilities

Industrial Polymers & Chemicals (IPAC) has joined in the effort to fight COVID-19 by combining shift workforces and capabilities to manufacture personal protective equipment (PPE) for front line medical personnel.IPAC is cutting material round the clock, to specifications required for protective isolation gowns.The Massachusetts Manufacturing Emergency Response Team was developed...

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