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Energy Focus Facility to Remain Operational During Ohio’s “Stay at Home” Order
-Company Deemed “Essential Critical Infrastructure Workforce”- SOLON, Ohio, March 23, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Energy Focus, Inc. (NASDAQ: EFOI), with its
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[{"type":"text","content":"-Company Deemed “Essential Critical Infrastructure Workforce”-\nSOLON, Ohio, March 23, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Energy Focus, Inc. (NASDAQ: EFOI), with its headquarters and a production facility in Solon, Ohio, has received letters from multiple U.S. Navy shipbuilders as well as a memorandum from the Under Secretary of Defense, Subject: Defense Industrial Base Essential Critical Infrastructure Workforce, defining parameters that qualify Energy Focus as part of the Essential Critical Infrastructure Workforce and requiring the company to continue operations.\n Energy Focus is considered part of the Defense Industrial Base, which is among the Critical Manufacturing Industries that fall within the broader Critical Infrastructure Industries, specified in the memorandum announced by U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) dated March 19, 2020. James Tu, Chairman and CEO of Energy Focus, stated: “We are in receipt of letters dated March 20, 2020 from multiple shipbuilder customers as well as the Under Secretary of Defense that recognize government and military suppliers such as Energy Focus during the COVID-19 pandemic as critical infrastructure companies. While the State of Ohio had issued its “stay at home” order that only permits essential businesses to stay open after March 23, 2020, our plant will continue to manufacture and fulfill our contracts and orders, while following the Company’s COVID-19 Contingency Plan (CCP) as well as Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Interim Guidance for COVID-19 to ensure the safety and health of our employees.” About Energy Focus Energy Focus is an industry-leading innovator of sustainable LED lighting technologies and solutions. As the creator of the first flicker-free original LED products on the U.S. market, Energy Focus products provide extensive energy and maintenance savings, and aesthetics, safety, health and sustainability benefits over conventional lighting. Our customers include U.S. and foreign navies, U.S. federal, state and local governments, healthcare and educational institutions, as well as Fortune 500 companies. Since 2007, Energy Focus has installed approximately 650,000 lighting products across US Navy fleet, including TLEDs, waterline security lights, explosion-proof globes and berth lights, saving more than fo...