TOKYO/WASHINGTON -- The looming ventilator shortages facing the world have spurred calls for increasing production, prompting manufactures, including Japan’s Asahi Kasei, to boost output of the equipment vital to treating coronavirus patients
A U.S. unit of Japanese chemical company Asahi Kasei will boost ventilator production 25 times to 10,000 a month by switching over line now used to make defibrillators. Massachusetts-based Zoll Medical said it has negotiated with suppliers to procure enough parts needed for the production boost.
