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Isle Of Wight Company Assists In Making 10,000 Ventilators

Emergency ventilators to support patients diagnosed with coronavirus look set to go into mass production today (Monday) - and an Isle of Wight company is getting involved. A host of world famous manufacturers, engineering firms and Formula One teams have put aside traditional rivalries and joined forces to scale-up production of two existing ventilators. As reported by ITV News, the expectation is that component manufacturing and the assembly of the ventilators will begin at a host of sites across the UK, including a GKN facility on Isle of Wight.

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