As an 'essential' defense supplier, Faustson Tool has kept operations running — thanks to a lot of industrial cleanser.

Heidi Hostetter realized her company should brace for Covid-19 after hearing a news segment on the disease while vacationing in San Francisco with her son in mid-February. As vice president and head of operations at Faustson Tool, a small Arvada manufacturer supplying aerospace and medical device companies, she had experience in China and had heard industry chatter about factory shutdowns there causing components shortages. Faustson Tool’s domestic supply chain had cushioned it. “But I began…