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Web site www.smiths.com
HeadquartersLondon
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Ceo Andrew Reynolds Smith
Revenue3. 213 billion GBP (2018)
DivisionsSmiths Medical
Smiths Detection
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Smiths Group plc is a British multinational diversified engineering business headquartered in London, United Kingdom. It has operations in over 50 countries and employs around 23,550 staff. Smiths Group has five divisions.

Coronavirus: fan built by Airbus and F1 approved

Apr 19,2020 12:01 am

About 1,500 Penlon Prima ESO2s in the week of may

, The First new medical respiration device for The Treatment of people with severe symptoms of Covid-19 was approved in the UK.

hundreds of Penlon Prima ESO2, which is an updated version of an existing model, to be built for the hospitals in the course of The Next week.

But the consortium of large companies, which have helped it to develop to get your hopes up, about 1,500 of the week from the beginning of may.

The government has said, there is an increase in fan stocks of 10,000 to 18,000, the handling of the pandemic needs.

But some have cast

On Thursday, after the approval by the medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA), the new Penlon devices.

A Cabinet spokesman said the devices would be delivered in The Coming months and it would continue to consider additional offers from other consortia.

Cabinet Secretary Michael Gove said it showed "the significant Progress made", after the big manufacturers were asked to help ramp up production.

companies, including Siemens, Airbus, Ford and A Number of Formula 1 teams worked with Penlon, medical equipment, coffee machine, adjustment of the fan so that it could be in series production at speed

Under normal circumstances, Penlon would only be in the 50 to 60 fans in the week.

In accordance with the updated MHRA rules, the ESO2 can also be Switched On and off more easily, so that the liquid drained from the patient's Lungs - Something , the most glaring Covid-19 patients may require regular, on an hourly basis.

Dick Elsy, CEO and Chairman of the VentilatorChallengeUK consortium, the power of The Device , said it had the Tests "strict and clinical studies for The Last Two Weeks ".

"fans of this kind of complex and critical pieces of medical equipment, thus ensuring absolute compliance with legal standards and meeting the clinical needs were said to be always our priorities," He Said .

the Airbus Broughton site, which makes wings for transport aircraft, Ford Dagenham motor factory and McLaren's Woking site to help to produce, the ESO2.

The consortium also said it was the ramp-up of production from other existing design, the Smiths Group paraPAC, which is used for less acute patients.

A Number of other companies are also in the design of new fans, including the Dyson.

However, the government has placed recently, to buy plans, a device developed by a group including Renault and Red Bull Formula One teams, because it was not the patient as suitable for The Treatment of Covid-19.

It was a month ago exactly, since the government appealed to the companies in the whole of the UK for the help of manufacturing fans and components for the NHS.

Since then, there has been some Progress - production of an existing design, the Smiths Group paraPAC, is already up and running. And the Mercedes F1 team has with the construction of a simpler respiration aid in large quantities.

But until today, none of the much-hyped new designs, it had received the official approval and the government was criticism in some circles, first of all, the specification of The Machines were allegedly ill-suited to The Treatment of Covid-19 patients.

you can Now start the production of the Penlon designed the machine, seriously, the drawing on the combined expertise of companies such as Airbus, Ford and McLaren.

The government is expected to buy about 5,000 of The Machines . In fact, it is 15,000 ordered a measure, the start of its relief supplies to the NHS can now seriously.



coronavirus pandemic, airbus group, nhs, companies, ventilators

Source of news: bbc.com

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