YKK USA has expanded its product range to help manufacturers across the country make products essential to fight COVID-19 pandemic. Best known for zippers, YKK now also offers variety of metal wire, hook & loop, injection moulded plastic parts, webbing, snaps, and buttons that can be used in COVID-19 relief applications.

Applications for the company’s Powerhook extruded hook include foley catheter holders, DVT compression sleeves, endotracheal tube holders, arm boards, blood pressure cuffs, and radial compression devices. The company also offers Sofix for manufacturers of surgical gowns, which incorporates plastic snaps injected onto tape, as well as Powerhook and YKK’s polyester tape. Medical curtain manufacturers can use YKK’s plastic snaps, stainless Snapet, and gypsy stud snaps.

YKK also manufactures back to back hook and loop fasteners, Sofix, plastic detachable clips, and plastic cord stoppers, all of which can be used as ear savers when used in conjunction with face masks. For those manufacturing face masks, YKK offers 3.0 mm and 4.0 mm aluminum wire and 3.0 mm and 5.0 mm elastic tapes e. For medical face shield manufacturers, it produces lastic and metal snaps, hook and loop fasteners, and plastic cord stoppers.