COVID-19: 3D printing medical supplies - coronatech 2020

The table shows selected examples for the use of 3D printing technology to produce medical supplies needed during the global coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. Currently 3D printing gets mostly used to produce face shields and masks and respirators, but also test swabs for COVID-19 test kits.

Exemplary use of 3D printing to provide medical supplies during coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic in 2020 (number of parts produced)

Characteristic	Number of parts produced
Consortium - Formlabs, Carbon, EnvisionTec, and Origin: nasophryngeal swabs (potential weekly capacity)	4,000,000
Nexa3D (3D printing manufacturer, United States): Test swabs (potential weekly production capacity)	500,000
Stratasys & Origin (United States): Nasopharyngeal swabs (Planned production capacity per day)	190,000
Nissan (car manufacturer, Japan): Face shields (potential weekly production capacity)	100,000
Voodoo Manufacturing (3D printing, United States): Face shields and swabs (weekly capacity for 2,500 face shields and 50,000 swabs)	52,500
Ricoh 3D (Printing, UK): Face shields (weekly capacity)	40,000
3D Hubs (3D manufacturing, Netherlands):Face shields (coordinated effort through the COVID-19 Manufacturing Fund)	20,000
Forecast 3D (Industrial 3D printing, United States): Face shields, stopgap masks, nasopharyngeal swabs, and other PPE products (daily part production capacity)	10,000
Nexa3D (3D printing manufacturer, United States): Face shields (potential weekly production capacity)	10,000
Prusa Research (3D printing company, Czech Republic): Face shields	10,000
Mobility/Medical goes Additive consortium (around 50 enterprises, Germany): Face shields	5,000
Unnamed/unknown (Large-scale PPE manufacturer, China): Safety googles (2,000 daily)	5,000
Stratasys (3D printing manufacturer, United States): Full-face shields (total by March 27, 2020)	5,000
Protolabs (3D printing company):Ventilator components	3,000
Fast Radius (Additive manufacturing solutions, United States): Face shield kits (inital shipment, potential daily production capacity of 10,000)	1,500
Azul3D (3D printing manufacturer): Face shields (Current daily capacity; Goal of 20,000 face shields per week)	1,000
SmileDirectClub (Digital dentistry enterprise): Face shields (initial shipment; potential capacity of 7,500 per day)	1,000
Photocentric (3D printing company, UK): Valves for respirators (trial run; potential capacity of 40,000 per week)	600
Y Soft 3D (Enterprise solutions, Czech Republic): Face shields (daily production capacity)	500
Weerg & PressUP (Italy): Protective visors	500
BCN3D (3D printing manufacturer): Face shields (initial shipment with 2,000 more planned to ship)	400
Formlabs (3D printing company, United States): Test swabs (300 in one batch; potential capacity of 75-150k per day)	300
Photocentric (Photopolymer manufacturer, UK): Face shield parts (first batch of prints; potential daily capacity for 4,860 parts)	200
Omni3D (Industrial 3D Printing, Poland): Face shields (daily capacity)	120
Consortium led by Leitat technology center (Zona Franca Consortium, Spain): Pieces for respirators (planned daily production)	100
Isinnova (Engineering firm, Italy): Respirator valves (produced in 24 hours)	100