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Am I permitted to post positive ventilator news? 17:07 - Apr 27 with 1131 views

Friend of mine works at Penlon in Abingdon which is the company that designed the ESO 2. Penlon usually make around 700 anaesthetic ventilators per year but through the ‘UK Ventilator Challenge’ (a consortium featuring Penlon, McClaren, Ford, Airbus, STI and other companies) they are producing 15,000 machines in 10 weeks.

The Penlon facility in Abingdon has been converted into the test house (ventilators undergo a lengthy and thorough test), Airbus are assembling the absorbers, McClaren the trolleys then it all goes off to Ford to be assembled into the full ESO 2 ventilator (AVC, Flowmeter, Absorber and ventilator) before going back to Abingdon to be tested.

My mates job is Final Approval doing the very last QC and paperwork checks and authorising the machines release.

The machines are restricted for use in the Covid-19 pandemic and are heading out to the NHS now

300 supplied
1000 by the end of this week
1500 per week thereafter

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Mate of mine is on one of the Dyson ones.

He's picking up nicely.

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Am I permitted to post positive ventilator news? on 17:26 - Apr 27 by artsbossbeard
Mate of mine is on one of the Dyson ones. He's picking up nicely.

Typical Beard, typical.

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Guthrum

Good stuff.

Even if the UK ends up not needing all the extra ones, there's going to be somewhere in the world which will (e.g. large parts of Africa).

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