Suburban companies send supplies east.(Business)

0 Comments | Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), September, 2001 | by Mawhorr, S.A.

Byline: S. A. Mawhorr Daily Herald Business Writer Two local companies sent extra shipments of medical supplies to the East Coast Tuesday in response to apparent terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon that left an untold number of people dead and injured. Libertyville Township-based Abbott Laboratories, which is the second largest supplier to the healthcare industry, loaded up trucks with a variety of equipment such as intravenous tubing, needles and anesthesia and sent them to the company's distribution center in Pennsylvania.

The biggest obstacle so far is getting past the security checkpoints now ringing the devastation in New York City as well as around the Pentagon, said Abbott spokeswoman Ann Fahey-Widman. "We're working with the...