Some members of the Dankmeyer team have joined a local effort to make parts for medical equipment! Face shields, like masks and other protective medical equipment, are essential for medical personnel to be safe while treating COVID-19 patients. 3D printing users all over the world have jumped in to design and then make various types of equipment or parts.

Dankmeyer has responded to a Baltimore company’s call to mobilize 3D printers in our area. Open Works is a local company forced to lay off some of its team, but is using remaining staff members and its equipment to make the face shields. You can read about this effort in this article by clicking here. Will Holman, Director of Open Works: “We have now signed up 260 volunteers with access to over 500 3D printers at home, at libraries, at schools and on military bases in the state of Maryland,” Holman said Monday. “They are going to start printing these parts and sending them to us.”

The collaborative work is being called “Makers Unite”, a Collaborative Emergency Response. Dankmeyer 3D printers are chugging away to produce the parts that the plastic face shield is connected to in order to secure the shield to the wearer’s head. 3D printing isn’t fast, but we hope that our contribution, in combination with many others, will make a difference.