The National Institute of Pharmaceuticals Education and Research (NIPER)-Guwahati has sgined an MoU with Hindustan Antibiotic Limited, Pune, for large scale manufacturing of personal protection equipment (PPEs) to stop the spread of COVID-19 transmission.
expressed its commitment to providing useful solutions in terms of developing Personal Protective Equipment’s (PPEs) to avoid the fatal spread of COVID-19 transmission.
NIPER-Guwahati director  Dr U S N. Murty informed about this MoU and said the deal will also facilitate large scale industrial grade manufacturing and commercialization of their 3D printed anti-microbial face shields.
Both the organizations are under the Department of Pharmaceuticals of Government of India.
under the Department of Pharmaceuticals, Union Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilizers, Govt. of India
NIPER-Guwahati has also filed both an Indian design patent and provisional patent at Indian Patent Office, New Delhi on their 3D printed antimicrobial face-shields.
NIPER-G has designed, developed & validated 3D-printed antimicrobial face-shield to control the spread of novel coronavirus, after careful analyses of several resources for risk measurement and on how viruses spread through bare hands and other body cavities like oral, ophthalmic & olfactory, etc. (even though ear as well). Some of the salient features of their developed 3D printed antimicrobial face-shields include, highly occlusive, transparent, easy-to-design, low cost, easy to wear, antimicrobial in nature, excellent chemical stability, non-fragile and easy to clean with the existing sanitizers or any alcoholic disinfectant.
In addition to this, NIPER-G designed & developed a 3D-printed multi-layer antimicrobial face mask to control the spread of novel coronavirus. The first layer of this mask will be anti-bacterial casing, the second layer will be the sanitizing layer and reducing exposure of airborne particulates. finally, the third layer will be the medicinal layer to prevent extra microbial attacks, etc.
Finally, NIPER-G has also developed and  validated a 3D-printed hands-free multi-tasking object for opening or closing of the doors, windows, drawers (both vertical & horizontal), refrigerator handle, elevator buttons, laptop/desktop keyboards, including turning on/off switch buttons. This product is very handy, user-friendly, non-fragile, and easy to clean with the existing sanitizers or any alcoholic disinfectant.

NIPER-Guwahati has also filed both an Indian design patent and provisional patent at Indian Patent Office, New Delhi on their 3D printed antimicrobial face-shields.