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Subject: [DCHAS-L] Market research question: N99 vs N95 for specific market segment
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2020 20:16:27 -0400
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My company is gearing up to begin selling NIOSH-approved N95 and N99 particulate-filtering respirators. Both are cup style particulate filtering masks but the N99's have a valve which makes breathing out much more enjoyable (see Note 1 below), however, they are about twice the cost of the N95's.  To put a number on this at the moment, say the N95 is between $1.50 and $2.00 each and remember that the end user is likely going to be using these for the foreseeable future.


The manufacturer and we are trying to anticipate what the demand split might be for the two.  For now we are only going to take domestic (US) orders that ship directly to medical and essential service industries and we are also planning to limit purchase quantities to ensure everyone gets an equal shot.

If you are involved in either using or decision-making the purchase of these items in a hospital/healthcare environment or an essential service industry, we'd be interested in your feedback on this. Please contact me off-list at info**At_Symbol_Here**ilpi.com with your thoughts about the N99 vs N95 being worth it with respect to preferences, cost/comfort, quantities your facility might need etc. and I will anonymously summarize those responses back to the list.  I can throw in a 5% discount to thank those who participate.

Thanks,

Rob Toreki

Note 1: For anyone with concerns about exhalation valves in infection control see https://www.cdc.gov/niosh/npptl/topics/respirators/factsheets/respsars.html#E .  I figure that most regular non-valve masks probably don't filter outwardly very well, given that a lot of the air escapes out the sides, but I don't have any data.

Note 2: NIOSH has a nice summary of respirator designations here: https://www.cdc.gov/niosh/npptl/topics/respirators/disp_part/respsource1quest2.html  Note also than the KN95's you are hearing about or are likely getting multiple daily spams for are *not* NIOSH-certified.

Note 3: We are anticipating exceedingly limited stock of the N99's next week most of which is already allocated.  For the most part we are looking at June availability with abundant supply by August.

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