Ford introduced Tuesday it'll companion with 3M and GE Healthcare to start producing face masks and ventilators to assist fill potential shortages attributable to the coronavirus. 

Ford will work with 3M to fabricate a newly designed respirator and increase manufacturing of 3M's powered air-purifying respirator, which makes use of a blower as a substitute of lung energy to attract air by the filter. Ford mentioned unionized workers will have the ability to manufacture the brand new respirators. 

Ford and GE Healthcare will start manufacturing a "simplified model of GE Healthcare's present ventilator design" to assist sufferers who might expertise hassle respiratory attributable to COVID-19. 

Ford mentioned it's taking a look at the way it may produce these new-generation PAPRs in one in all its Michigan manufacturing crops whereas the ventilators could possibly be produced at a Ford web site along with a GE location. Ford mentioned the brand new initiative ties to a...