3M Partners With Ford to Help Further Accelerate COVID-19 Response
March 24 2020 - 7:31AM
Business Wire
3M and Ford will collaborate on making more
powered air purifying respirators to help in the fight against the
COVID-19 outbreak
3M and Ford Motor Company are partnering to increase the
production of 3M’s powered air purifying respirators, or PAPRs.
3M and Ford are collaborating on specific ways the companies can
rapidly combine complementary capabilities and resources to help
meet a surge in demand for personal protective equipment due to the
COVID-19 outbreak.
3M’s powered air purifying respirators use a waist-mounted,
battery-powered blower that sends filtered air into a hood that
helps provide respiratory protection for workers, including those
in healthcare. 3M’s PAPR systems can offer a more comfortable user
experience for wearers who need respiratory protection for an
extended period of time.
“We’re exploring all available opportunities to further expand
3M’s capacity and get healthcare supplies as quickly as possible to
where they’re needed most – which includes partnering with other
great companies like Ford,” said Mike Roman, 3M chairman of the
board and chief executive officer. “It’s crucial that we mobilize
all resources to protect lives and defeat this disease, and I’m
incredibly grateful to Ford and their employees for this
partnership.”
“3M is providing vital personal protective equipment for medical
workers and we’ve empowered our engineers and designers to move as
quickly as possible to help 3M grow PAPR production using common
parts to speed this up. We are also volunteering our facilities for
additional production,” said Jim Hackett, Ford’s president and
CEO.
Overall, 3M has doubled its global output of N95 respirators to
a rate of more than 1.1 billion per year, or nearly 100 million per
month. In the United States 3M is producing 35 million respirators
per month; of these, more than 90 percent are now designated for
healthcare workers, with the remaining deployed to other industries
also critical in this pandemic, including energy, food and
pharmaceutical companies.
About 3M
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