California startup Carbon, which just got FDA approval for its test swab, is one of dozens of companies 3D-printing medical equipment needed to fight the coronavirus
Cover photo of Carbon’s prototype COVID-19 test swabs. All but one of the designs passed patient testing at Stanford and Beth Israel hospitals; Carbon eventually chose a hybrid of the two on the right.and Ellen Kullman, who became the company’s CEO last November, started thinking seriously about how the company’s technology might help meet the urgent needs for medical supplies during the coronavirus pandemic.
Over the weekend, the company designed face shields in conjunction with Verily , 3D-printed prototypes of them, and sent them off to Stanford Hospital and Kaiser Permanente for testing. Simultaneously, Carbon’s designers started working on 3D-printed COVID-19 nasopharyngeal test swabs, which are also in short supply and among the reasons for the bottleneck in testing.
“We are scrambling like crazy,” says DeSimone, 55, a former professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill who launched the company in 2013. While most of Redwood City, California-based Carbon’s employees are working remotely during the state’s shelter-in-place order, DeSimone carries a letter with him that permits his movement just in case he’s stopped by the police; a small staff has to be there to run the company’s industrial-scale 3D printers.
As the coronavirus pandemic spreads, and shortages of all types of medical equipment have become clear, giant companies and do-it-yourselfers alike have scrambled to fill the gaps.that it was teaming up with 3M and GE Healthcare, for example, to crank up production of ventilators and respirators. But the crisis also offers a moment for industrial 3D printing technology, which has for the past few years been on the verge of a breakthrough, to show the public what it might be capable of.
Yin and yang: Carbon cofounder Joe DeSimone, a chemist and former professor, brought in Ellen Kullman, former CEO of DuPont, to replace himself in the top role last November.3D printing analyst Terry Wohlers figures that “there could easily be hundreds” of efforts to use 3D-printing against the coronavirus. There are, by his estimates, some 47,000 industrial-scale 3D printers installed in the U.S.
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