{"id":71746,"date":"2020-04-20T13:44:59","date_gmt":"2020-04-20T20:44:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/?p=71746"},"modified":"2020-04-24T15:06:47","modified_gmt":"2020-04-24T22:06:47","slug":"71746","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/71746\/","title":{"rendered":"Torq-Masters Pivot to Manufacture Face Shields"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"71747\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/71746\/cora-pic\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Cora-Pic-scaled-e1587414916907.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"640,348\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;2.4&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;SM-G975U&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1587037530&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;4.3&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;250&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.025641025641026&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Cora Pic\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Cora-Pic-scaled-e1587414916907-300x163.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Cora-Pic-1024x667.jpg\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-71747\" src=\"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Cora-Pic-1024x667.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"417\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Torq-Masters Industries usually known for specializing in Locking Differentials announced they will be manufacturing face-shields to combat COVID-19. Torque-Masters, based in Rochester, NY, a Woman-owned company, decided to pivot their workforce after automotive parts sales have slowed due to the virus.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"71748\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/71746\/erik-side\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/erik-side-scaled.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1875,2560\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;1.5&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;SM-G975U&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1587134026&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;4.3&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;320&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.025&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"erik side\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/erik-side-220x300.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/erik-side-750x1024.jpg\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-71748\" src=\"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/erik-side-220x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"220\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/erik-side-220x300.jpg 220w, https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/erik-side-750x1024.jpg 750w, https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/erik-side-768x1048.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/erik-side-1125x1536.jpg 1125w, https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/erik-side-1500x2048.jpg 1500w, https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/erik-side-scaled.jpg 1875w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 220px) 100vw, 220px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;After trying multiple designs, a dozen foam samples, tons of research, and securing materials in the quantities we need (which was the hardest part), We are excited to announce that we are assembling 1,000 face shields this week to send out to purchasing agents as free samples. We have the capacity to assemble 10,000 face shields a week. We can also ship face shield kits for furloughed hospital employees to assemble.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>These Face Shields are Anti-Fog<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>There are plastic stickers over the staples so hair does not snag<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>These Face Shields are FDA Authorized<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>These Face Shields are for Droplet and Splash protection<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>These Face Shields are Made in the USA <\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Torq-Masters Industries usually known for specializing in Locking Differentials announced they will be manufacturing face-shields to combat COVID-19.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":71747,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7722,3470],"tags":[7566,7567,1830,41,2206,7700,7712],"class_list":["post-71746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-auto-industry-resources","category-news","tag-coronavirus","tag-covid-19","tag-differentials","tag-news","tag-partners","tag-ppe","tag-torque-masters"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Cora-Pic-scaled-e1587414916907.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s42YSK-71746","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71746"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71746\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71750,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71746\/revisions\/71750"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}