A national Business Response Network has been launched to bring business support to local needs.
As the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on towns and cities across the UK intensifies, the need to link business support to community need in the right place, at the right time and at the right scale has never been more urgent.
3D-printing specialist SYS Systems has launched a project to create protective face shields and is sharing the files with any company that has a 3D printer.
There is an urgent need to equip thousands of NHS workers, law enforcement professionals and other key workers with full-face plastic visors to enable them to work safely on the front line.
Connect 2 Cleanrooms, a UK cleanroom design and build specialist, is offering its services for the ventilator production drive.
CEO Joe Govier said: “We would welcome any organisation who is looking for a quick-to-production cleanroom manufacturing environment to support the UK Government’s efforts to increase ventilator production to contact us.
“We have contacted the BEIS Business Support Helpline to offer our contamination control services and are also reaching out to manufacturers directly due to the urgency of the situation.
Sliding and fixed-head lathe manufacturer Citizen reports that five subcontractors responding to the ventilator manufacturing call have ordered new machines in the past fortnight.
Protolabs is using its 3D-printing, machining and moulding skills to produce critical parts for Covid-19 testing and ventilator masks
The company specialises in the fast digital manufacture of prototypes and low-volume production parts.
Protolabs, which employs over 450 people at its European headquarters in Telford, has played a key role in supporting Italian engineers in the conversion of ‘Easybreath’ snorkelling equipment into ventilator masks.