GM making progress on ventilators, masks for coronavirus pandemic



Work being completed Sunday, March 29, 2020 on the Basic Motors manufacturing facility in Kokomo, Indiana, the place GM and Ventec Life Methods are partnering to supply Ventec VOCSN important care ventilators in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Basic Motors is rapidly transferring to repurpose elements of two U.S. automotive factories to fabricate health-care provides in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

GM's efforts, which have acquired the ire and, extra just lately, reward of President Donald Trump, embrace manufacturing FDA-cleared Degree 1 surgical masks at a producing facility in Warren, Michigan, and Ventec VOCSN important care ventilators at a elements plant in Kokomo, Indiana.

The automaker Sunday night time stated each initiatives are progressing, together with plans this week to start making surgical masks on the facility in suburban Detroit. Manufacturing of the ventilators, in partnership with Washington-based Ventec Life Methods, is predicted to start as quickly as doable, with shipments...



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