Stanley Black & Decker is in the business of creating products that people use every day to update their homes and fix their cars. Their infrastructure systems deliver the roads and bridges people drive on, and their security technologies protect the places where we live and work. This year, the company’s products—which include tools, fasteners, security, health, and safety solutions used by healthcare, first responders, and construction, transportation and manufacturing workers—became essential in the work being done across the globe to fight COVID-19. “Everything's interconnected,” said Stanley Black & Decker Chief Technology Officer Mark Maybury. “If our fastener business stops working, it prevents others from making hospital beds, it prevents others from making respirators, and even impacts those making masks that rely on nose clips. All of these things are produced in our factories.”