Faced with a rising number of COVID-19 coronavirus infections, Pennsylvania governor Tom Wolf, like so many other government leaders, issued a stay-at-home order for his state in mid-March. Not long after the governor’s order, phone calls and emails started coming in at Du-Co Ceramics’ headquarters in Saxonburg, Pa.

Dozens of the family-owned firm’s customers called wanting to know if the company would be able to continue supplying the components that are critical to making their products.

“The first call we got was from a company that makes ventilators,” says Lora Cooper Rothen, Du-Co’s CEO.