our customers, our suppliers and our other business partners do business. National, state and local governments in affected regions have implemented and may continue to implement safety precautions, including quarantines, travel restrictions, business closures, cancellations of public gatherings and other measures. Other organizations and individuals are taking additional steps to avoid or reduce infection, including limiting travel and staying home from work. These measures are disrupting normal business operations both in and outside of affected areas and have had significant negative impacts on businesses and financial markets worldwide.
We continue to monitor our operations and government recommendations and have made modifications to our normal operations because of theCOVID-19 outbreak, including requiring mostnon-production related team members to work remotely. We have maintained a substantial portion of our manufacturing operational capacity at our manufacturing facilities located in West Warwick, Rhode Island, as well as our manufacturing facilities in Canada and Germany, at this time, and we have instituted heightened cleaning and sanitization standards and several health and safety protocols and procedures to safeguard our team members.
However, we have experienced a number of adverse impacts as a result of theCOVID-19 outbreak, including reductions in demand for our products, delays and cancellations of orders for our products, difficulties in obtaining raw materials and components for our products, shortages of labor to manufacture our products, inefficiencies caused by remote worker’s difficulties in performing their normal work outputs, closures of the facilities of some of our suppliers and customers, and delays in collecting accounts receivable.
While it is not possible at this time to estimate the entirety of the impact thatCOVID-19 will have on our business, customers, suppliers or other business partners, we expect that the continued spread ofCOVID-19, the measures taken by the governments of affected countries, actions taken to protect employees, and the impact of the pandemic on all business activities to further adversely impact our operational capacity and the efficiency of our team members and will continue to materially adversely affect our results of operations and financial condition.
The adverse effect ofCOVID-19 on our business has negatively impacted our ability to comply with the covenants governing our credit facility, and disruptions in the credit and capital markets as a result ofCOVID-19 have and may continue to adversely affect the terms on which we are able to obtain new financing.
The aerospace industry, which we serve through our aerospace product line, has been significantly disrupted by theCOVID-19 outbreak, both inside and outside of the United States. The impact of the decline in air travel has had and will continue to have a material adverse impact on our financial results, the ultimate scope of which we cannot estimate at this time. Should one of more of our airplane OEM manufacturing customers or a significant number of airline customers fail to continue business as a going concern or declare bankruptcy, or otherwise reduce the demand for our products as a result of the impact of theCOVID-19 pandemic crisis, it would have a material adverse impact on our business operations and financial results.
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