Cardiff University‘s PARC and DSV collaborate to produce 3D printed visors for NHS staff in Wales

A suite of 3D printers originally destined for Cardiff University’s PARC Institute have been repurposed and relocated to manufacture visors for NHS Wales in the fight against COVID-19.

The 3D printing machines, including the latest in industrial HP 3D printing equipment, were ordered as part of a £500,000 Welsh Government-funded project to develop a new RemakerSpace centre at Cardiff Business School, Cardiff University.

When the coronavirus outbreak began however, the PARC team immediately started to plan ways of repurposing the PARC’s RemakerSpace ...