RESILIENCE & RECOVERY RESILIENCE & RECOVERY
The Covid-19 crisis has presented our region with challenges like no other in recent memory. But the business community has risen to the challenge in an inspiring show of strength and innovation in the face of unprecedented odds. Here, we celebrate our members who have fought the pandemic head-on by supporting the community, working with health providers or generally stepping up to combat the crisis. Leading the line has been a consortium of organisations co-ordinated by
Babcock, who are providing 3D-printed face shields to frontline staff during the Covid-19 pandemic. The consortium was put together in the space of a few days, and involves a
range of partners including Babcock International, the University of Plymouth, Plymouth Science Park, the Royal Navy and Plymouth College of Art, as well as independent 3D printing enthusiasts from the city’s maker community. Once assembled, professionally packaged up and complete with
instructions, hundreds of the items are being delivered to staff working across the city, in the hope that they will help lower their risk of infection when attending people who might be affected by the virus. We’re sure there are many other examples we have missed in the following list, so apologies for any members we may have omitted!
South Devon College The Hi Tech and Digital team at South Devon College had set out on a mission to address the shortage of PPE in the NHS by utilising the 3D printing facilities available at the college. This mission evolved to inspire businesses around the country that were capable to do the same.
South Devon College joined efforts with
companies from their existing business network - Teignbridge Propellers, Gooch & Housego, Hercules Hydraulics and Dart Valley Systems - to form the South Devon College Printing Group, with Safety First providing a courier provision and other resources supplied by Dart Haven Marina and Partington Print in Paignton. The Group coordinated the efforts of
businesses, as well as a network of individual volunteers within the local community, to produce and deliver the face shields. Enquirers from further afield were sent the open source file adapted by the college along with details of the specification for materials and print set up. Since the start of lockdown,
PPE masks in production
‘Our community is showing just
the South Devon College Printing Group has now supplied well over 1,000 visors to Torbay and South Devon NHS. In an email thanking the team, Nick Peres, of the Torbay and South Devon NHS Trust, said: “It is an absolute testament to the efforts of South Devon College and community partners that we are at this point in having a healthy supply of face visors in the hospital, the production of which have supplemented our own NHS supply chain tremendously. For that, everyone here is extremely grateful to you all.” Steve Caunter, Assistant Principal and Lead for
how strong it can be when working together’
Hi Tech & Digital at South Devon College, said: "The number of businesses and individuals volunteering to support this initiative with their own facilities and materials is staggering. All of this wouldn't be possible without collaboration. “Our community is showing just how strong it can be when working together and now our aim is
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to support the valuable work undertaken in care settings. Thank you again to all those involved.” The team has now turned its attention to supporting community health and social care settings with a further 200 units produced.
Ben Bryant - Lead for Engineering, Hi Tech & Digital Team at South Devon College
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