Pryor Products Partners With General Motors and Martinrea To Meet Demand For Ventilator Rolling Cart Units Company Rapidly Scales Production of Ventilator Rolling Carts Amid COVID-19 Outbreak Pryor Products, a leading global supplier of ventilator rolling carts today announced that the Company recently expanded its operations in order to meet the increased demand of ventilator carts due to the worldwide COVID-19 outbreak. The Company’s Oceanside factory has added round-the-clock shifts to accommodate heightened demand. In addition, Pryor Products has partnered with General Motors Co. (NYSE: GM), Ventec Life Systems and Martinrea to help meet the projected global demand for ventilators which is is expected to increase by 2000 percent by the end of 2020.
“We are proud and privileged to be able to play such a significant role in the global fight against this disease. Our employees have never worked with a greater sense of purpose and our supply chain partners in Oceanside made the impossible, possible.”
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Through this partnership, GM’s engineering team leveraged Pryor’s proprietary ventilator rolling cart design to create the tools and dies necessary to produce units. Pryor delivered the first shipment of 1,000 ventilator rolling carts in the month of April while GM’s partner, Martinrea will use their factory capacity at several U.S.-based plants to produce thousands of additional rolling carts as required over the next eight months. Martinrea was able to move from the GM design phase to full manufacturing in just 24 days, while GM and Martinrea ramped up production capabilities for the ventilators and carts for their first month of volume shipments in May. “We are proud to collaborate with GM and Martinrea. Their design, engineering and manufacturing expertise was invaluable as we optimized our manufacturing and assembly
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