Telford-based 3D printing company, Ricoh 3D, has offered its resources to help make ventilators for coronavirus patients. Ricoh 3D has contacted both Make UK and the Government to confirm the company is willing and able to support an increase in mass ventilator manufacturing.

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By using its workforce and additive manufacturing to produce vital components for ventilators both quickly and cost-effectively, the company believes it will be able to make a difference. The response to help comes after a call from health secretary Matt Hancock for UK manufacturers to urgently work together. Hancock called for an increase in the availability of the number of machines the NHS has which enable patients who are suffering from severe symptoms to breathe. In his speech, Hancock also stressed how the UK currently only has 5,000 ventilators but needs many more. He urged UK manufacturers to get involved in any way they could. […]

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