Prestige Ameritech has consolidated its three Texas facilities into a single facility at 7201 Iron Horse Blvd. in North Richland Hills, Texas.  The move will allow Prestige Ameritech to meet the growing demand for American-made surgical masks and respirators in the United States and around the world.

The 220,000 square foot former Kimberly Clark/Tecnol facility is now

Prestige Ameritech's Global Pandemic Preparedness and Response Center. Besides supplying the world's hospitals with their normal needs of facemasks and respirators, the center will help the US and other countries build surgical mask and N95 respirator stockpiles for use during pandemics. Stockpiling reduces the likelihood of mask shortages in global emergencies.