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Ochsner Health medical equipment joint venture to invest $150M, hire 1,200 Ochsner Health medical equipment joint venture to invest $150M, hire 1,200 Associated Press Print A company that makes personal protective equipment will open two factories near Lafayette, hiring more than 1,200 people. SafeSource Direct made the announcement Monday, saying it would invest $150 million in the venture. The company is a joint venture of Jefferson-based Ochsner Health, Louisiana's largest hospital system, and Trax Development. SafeSource Direct will make and sell equipment to health care and other industr...

2 PPE production facilities going to Acadiana PPE production facilities going to Acadiana By WAFB Staff | May 3, 2021 at 7:50 PM CDT - Updated May 3 at 7:50 PM BROUSSARD, La. (WAFB) - Two new PPE manufacturing facilities are planned for Louisiana and they’re expected to bring hundreds of new jobs. The facilities, based in Acadiana, will make PPE for healthcare and other industries in Louisiana and nationwide. Officials expect the new facilities to create more than 1,200 new jobs and almost 1,000 indirect jobs. Ochsner Health partnered with Trax Development on a joint venture to creat...

An 80,000-square-foot building in Broussard, Louisiana will serve as SafeSource's headquarters and one of two factories.

SafeSource Direct, a company producing personal protective equipment, announced Monday that it would be building two plants in Broussard. The announcement came as local economic development officials, state leaders, health care leaders and others gathered at the company’s future nitrile plant at 142 Lake Talon Road in Broussard, falling in St. Martin Parish. The second facility will be at 200 St. Nazaire Road in Broussard in Lafayette Parish. “Today’s announcement is not only a celebration of the new jobs SafeSource Direct will create and the economic activity it will generate, but also...

Personal Protective Equipment facility coming to Broussard and last updated 2021-05-03 14:11:06-04 Two new PPE manufacturing facilities are planned for the Broussard area, and they're expected to create 2,200 new jobs, officials say. Gov. John Bel Edwards joined Ochsner Health President and CEO Warner Thomas, SafeSource Direct CEO Justin Hollingsworth and other officials announces the development of two manufacturing facilities for personal protective equipment, or PPE. Economic Development officials say the projects will create a combined 1,221 new direct jobs, and Louisiana Economic Devel...