Cadbury workers are using chocolate machines to produce visors for medics who are treating coronavirus patients
Printing business Ricoh 3D, based in Telford, Shropshire, is also in discussion with NHS trusts across the country to produce thousands of face shields a week.
Work has already begun on making the reusable visors with 250 delivered to New Cross Hospital in Wolverhampton on Thursday.Prospect School, a secondary school in Reading, Berkshire, has also worked to produce face shields, which will be distributed to local GP surgeries and to the Royal Berkshire Hospital.Heather Ridgus, Technology teacher at Prospect School in Reading, wearing a face shield.
The school has also delivered goggles and protective clothing from its science department to the hospital.It said six of its moulding machines in its factory in Billund, Denmark, is producing the safety masks for Danish health authorities. Lego said it can deliver 13,500 visors daily, which can grow to 58,000 a day within two weeks to meet growing demand.
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