General Motors has delivered its first 10 ventilators.
GM's partnership with Ventec started one month ago. Since then, GM said the combined teams have sourced thousands of parts and turned GM’s Kokomo facility into a medical device production plant. More than 1,000 workers in Kokomo will be making the ventilators.
GM and Ventec have contracted with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to provide 30,000 ventilators by the end of August. GM secured a $490 million government contract for the machines. President Donald Trump initially chastised GM on Twitter for moving too slowly to make ventilators. But he has since praised the automaker after it said it would start building the machines at Kokomo.
White House Assistant to the President Peter Navarro said, “Not only has GM/Ventec and the UAW set a new Trump Time standard in rapid industrial mobilization – just weeks from site construction to ventilator production – the GM/Ventec ventilators are now rolling off the line, and on the wings and tires of Big Brown-UPS."
Navarro offered a"patriotic White House salute to the full power of private enterprise joining hands with the full force of the federal government to fight the invisible enemy!”
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