Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin has joined other rocket companies in volunteering its manufacturing expertise to help make products needed to fight the coronavirus crisis.
Blue Origin workers from its BE-4 rocket engine team are volunteering to make plastic pieces needed for face shields.
The rocket company has about 38 different types of plastics that it can 3D print in house, with printers working day and night to make the parts. Blue Origin joins fellow rocket builders Virgin Orbit and SpaceX in producing supplies and devices needed by hospitals to combat the coronavirus pandemic.space venture Blue Origin has joined other rocket companies in volunteering its manufacturing expertise to help make products needed to fight the coronavirus crisis.
Blue Origin workers from its BE-4 rocket engine team are volunteering to make plastic pieces needed for face shields, the company said in a video released Tuesday. The rocket company has about 38 different types of plastics that it can 3D print in house, with printers working day and night to make the parts.
"It's essentially a headband that the face shield component attaches to. There's a huge shortage across the country," a Blue Origin employee said in a video released Tuesday.Several 3D printed headbands for medical face shields.A Blue Origin employee in the video said that the company is following social distancing protocols during production, with only one worker in the manufacturing area at a time.
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