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

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The company said it can help by using its workforce and additive manufacturing to produce vital components for ventilators both quickly and cost-effectively. It comes after a call from Health Secretary Matt Hancock for UK manufacturers to urgently work together to increase the number of the machines, which enable patients suffering severe symptoms to breath, available to the NHS. Mr Hancock said the UK currently has 5,000 ventilators but needs many more times that number. He urged UK manufacturers to get involved in any way they could. Mark Dickin, additive manufacturing & moulding engineering lead at Ricoh, said: “New ventilators are urgently required as the coronavirus crisis intensifies. […]

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