2nd March 2021 1:51 am 2nd March 2021 9:08 am
A manufacturing collective has proven that strength in numbers can be vital when using innovation to help the UK’s fight against Covid-19.
Image: Barkley Plastics
The demand for PPE during COVID-19 saw the Manufacturing Assembly Network (MAN) rally to meet the requirement and then take their product forward to commercialisation.
The Manufacturing Assembly Network (MAN), a group of eight sub-contract manufacturers and a specialist engineering design agency, was eager to help the country’s Covid-19 fight and, after a number of virtual meetings, it was agreed that the collective would pool its disciplines and over £50,000 of resource to develop the manKIND recyclable visor.