3D printing company Renishaw says that it has started mass-producing critical components for medical ventilators to help support the NHS in the fight against Covid-19.
The company has joined with other companies in the aerospace, automotive, medical devices and motorsport sectors to form the VentilatorChallengeUK consortium to boost production of two proven ventilators.
‘Ventilators are sophisticated medical devices and we felt that our capabilities would be best applied to helping scale up the production of designs with existing technologies,’ said Marc Saunders, director of group strategic development. ‘We soon realised that many other industrial companies were thinking the same way and that we would need our combined capacity and capabilities to achieve this enormous endeavour.’
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