MAN Group rallies forces to produce manKIND Visor

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A new visor aimed at protecting frontline workers against the threat of Covid-19 has been developed by nine manufacturers and an engineering design agency.

The Manufacturing Assembly Network has invested over £30,000 into the design and manufacture of the manKIND Visor, which they said is easy to assemble, reusable and more comfortable than the current options.

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Backed the Warwick Manufacturing Group (WMG), the collective took six weeks from initial concept and prototyping to create a bespoke tool at Barkley Plastics able to produce 500,000 units per year.

The first 20,000 are being donated to charitable causes, with South Warwickshire NHS Trust, New Cross Hospital in Wolverhampton, Support Staffordshire and the Pen Museum in Birmingham some of the first recipients.

Once this allocation has been finalised, the manKIND visor will then be sold directly to healthcare organisations, schools, retailers and businesses.

In a statement, Austin Owens, Founder of Grove Design and the driving force behind the project said: “We initially started 3D printing and distributing a few visors to help the NHS, but quickly realised we needed a more robust poduction method to keep up with demand.

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