September 25, 2023- Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee, Department of Economic and Community Development Commissioner Stuart C. McWhorter and DePre, LLC officials announced that a joint venture comprised of DeRoyal Industries, Inc., Premier, Inc., a leading technology-driven healthcare improvement company and 34 Premier member health systems will establish a healthcare products manufacturing facility in Powell, Tennessee.
DePre will invest $10.3 million in operations and create 26 new jobs at the company’s headquarters and manufacturing plant. The company will manufacture medical isolation gowns, bringing the production of this product from overseas to the U.S. to support more than 4,350 hospitals in Premier’s customer portfolio, as well as other healthcare providers nationwide.
To support the venture long term, health system co-investors signed multi-year commitments to purchase a portion of the isolation gowns used each year from DePre. Upon completion, DePre’s facility will also utilize state-of-the-art automation to produce two gowns per second.