Ford Motor Company, 3M and GE Healthcare are teaming up to make medical equipment, using Ford and Ford subsidiary plants in Michigan.
Ford and GE Healthcare are also working together to expand production of a simplified version of a GE Healthcare ventilator for coronavirus patients. The Ford-GE plan is to produce 50,000 ventilators within 100 days and up to 30,000 a month thereafter.
Ford is leading efforts to manufacture reusable gowns from airbag materials with supplier Joyson Safety Systems.
Ford is also lending its manufacturing support to help Thermo Fisher Scientific quickly expand production of COVID-19 collection kits for patient testing.
Ford is providing vehicles, drivers and equipment to help create the first mobile testing service in Michigan.
The COVID-19 Donation Match program is a combined effort between Ford Fund and Ford Motor Company Executive Chairman Bill Ford that will match $500,000 in donations to designated community organizations in the fight against COVID-19, raising a potential $1 million for groups battling the pandemic across the globe. Ford Fund is also launching a new “Read and Record” virtual volunteering project to create an online library of Ford employees reading children’s books for the 1.3 billion children and youth affected by school closings around the world.