KUALA LUMPUR (Dec 2): HIL Industries Bhd has expanded its face mask product range to include surgical-grade masks with antiviral and filtration efficiency to remove over 99.9% of virus and airborne particles. 

The company in July 2020 ventured into the personal protective equipment (PPE) and healthcare business.

In a statement on Thursday (Dec 2), HIL Industries said its PPE and healthcare arm HIL Medic Sdn Bhd recently began the manufacturing of the four-layer, self-sanitising copper oxide Korean Filter 99 (KF99) masks at its manufacturing facility in Shah Alam and will soon add five-layer KN95 masks to its product line-up.

HIL Industries president and chief executive officer Datuk Milton Ng said the addition to the company’s face mask product line-up is timely, considering rising demand for higher-quality face masks.

“Covid-19 is not quite behind us, but rather we are living alongside the pandemic where the usage of face masks is fast becoming the norm and a necessity as seen in the localities of respiratory virus outbreaks in the recent past.

“As economic and social activities resume globally on the back of mass-vaccination, demand for higher-quality face masks remains solid as another line of defence against the emergence of new variants of the Covid-19 virus, including Delta, Delta Plus and Omicron,” he said.

HIL Industries was last traded at 98 sen, valuing it at RM327.36 million.