Boeing, Nucor spearhead efforts to build protective gear for health care workers [View all]
Two manufacturing heavyweights, jet maker Boeing and steel maker Nucor, have stepped up to design, manufacture and donate clear protective face shields for health care workers battling the COVID-19 pandemic.
The shipments address shortages of personal protective equipment across the United States.
Boeing's Puget Sound facilities in Auburn, Everett, Renton, and Tukwila, as well as Portland, have joined a companywide effort to make 3D-printed face shields for hospitals and frontline medical professionals fighting the pandemic, in coordination with the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA).
Boeing said an initial shipment of 2,300 face shields was delivered to the Department of Health and Human Services Friday morning, hours after it was reportedly weighing plans to cut 10 percent of its 161,000 workforce.
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