CoNaSPro3D – 3D Printed Covid-19 Nasopharyngeal Swabs Post-Processing System

CoNaSPro3D — 3D 打印 Covid-19 鼻咽拭子后处理系统

• 批准号: 81905
• 金额: $ 12.34万
• 依托单位: ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING TECHNOLOGIES LTD
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Collaborative R&D
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2020 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=81905
• 关键词: CoNaSPro3D; 3D; Printed; Covid; 19

Covid-19 has brought disruption to economic and social life in the UK and rest of the world. Widescale testing of millions of people will be required to safely reopen the economy and continuous testing will be needed long after that. This has created an unprecedented demand for Covid-19 diagnostics items, among which Nasopharyngeal Swabs are the most widely used.Widescale usage of Nasopharyngeal Swabs has resulted in unprecedented demand in their manufacturing systems, especially in new generation, sustainable and Industry 4.0 compatible technologies. That is why industry has been trying to adapt 3D printing for the manufacture of required medical articles at scale, including functional specialised items such as Nasopharyngeal Swabs, ventilator splitters, masks etc.3D printing offers the capability to rapidly yet sustainably create the necessary medical articles locally within the UK. This ability is of strategic national importance, especially in the times of crisis and shortage of vital components as seen during Covid-19 epidemic. In many cases it is more convenient, sustainable, and environmentally friendly to 3D print parts at the point of use rather than keep large stockpiles manufactured overseas. Nationwide, there are many 3D printing systems both in commercial and academic capacity and ability to utilise this resource at full capacity would help UK economy to grow during and after Covid-19 pandemic.Additive Manufacturing Technologies has developed a method to post-process 3D printed Nasopharyngeal Swabs at scale using its smoothing machine PostPro3D. Innovate UK grant would allow AMT to fund the remaining R&D required to deploy this technology commercially.Project will allow AMT to enter 3D printed Nasopharyngeal Swabs and 3D printing Healthcare markets. The work will be done at the AMT's facilities in Sheffield and several UK laboratories that are able to operate under Covid-19 working restrictions.

新冠肺炎给英国和世界其他地区的经济和社会生活带来了颠覆。为了安全地重启经济，将需要对数百万人进行大规模测试，而且在那之后很长一段时间内，还需要持续的测试。这创造了对新冠肺炎诊断项目前所未有的需求，其中鼻咽拭子是使用最广泛的。鼻咽拭子的广泛使用导致其制造系统产生前所未有的需求，特别是在新一代、可持续发展和与工业4.0兼容的技术方面。这就是为什么工业界一直在尝试将3D打印应用于规模化生产所需的医疗物品，包括鼻咽拭子、呼吸机分离器、口罩等功能专业物品。3D打印提供了在英国本地快速且可持续地制造必要医疗物品的能力。这一能力具有国家战略意义，特别是在新冠肺炎疫情期间出现危机和关键部件短缺的时期。在许多情况下，3D打印部件在使用时比在海外生产的大量库存更方便、更可持续、更环保。在全国范围内，有许多3D打印系统在商业和学术方面都有能力，充分利用这些资源的能力将有助于英国经济在新冠肺炎事件期间和之后的增长。Additive制造技术公司已经开发出一种使用其平滑机PostPro3D大规模后处理3D打印的鼻咽拭子的方法。Innovate UK拨款将允许AMT为将这项技术商业化所需的剩余研发提供资金。该项目将允许AMT进入3D打印鼻咽拭子和3D打印医疗市场。这项工作将在AMT位于谢菲尔德的设施和几个能够在新冠肺炎工作限制下运行的英国实验室完成。