General Motors Will Soon Be Making 1.5 Million Masks a Month to Fight Coronavirus
General Motors (NYSE: GM) said that its plan to manufacture face masks for workers in healthcare and essential businesses is well underway -- and the company expects to deliver the first 20,000 of them on April 8.
GM has been working since March 20 on this effort to help protect people from the COVID-19 coronavirus. A team of engineers and technicians has installed the necessary machinery in a "clean room" at the automaker's Warren, Michigan, test center, and is currently testing the manufacturing process.
GM engineers and technicians are preparing to make face masks in Warren, Michigan. The team made a test batch of 2,000 over the weekend. Image source: General Motors.
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