Airbus has converted the Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre Cymru, based in Broughton, into an assembly line to support Ventilator Challenge UK.
The plane maker, which manufactures the wings for its planes in Broughton, hopes to produce up to 1,500 Penlon ventilators each week at the R&D facility.
The production of the Penlon-designed medical devices is being scaled up by industry consortium, after winning regulatory approval on 16th April.
Airbus is making approximately 50% of the parts of each finished ventilator at AMRC Cymru, assembling absorber units and flowmeters.
The parts are then sent and assembled with ventilator units made by Ford in Dagenham and trolleys made by McLaren in Woking to make the final ventilator unit. Penlon then tests the medical devices in Abingdon before supplying to the NHS.
AMRC Cymru was officially opened in November last year, targetted at giving businesses R&D opportunities and support.
Situated in the Deeside Enterprise Zone, it focuses on advanced manufacturing sectors including aerospace, automotive and nuclear.
Airbus is the first major tenant and has a platform to develop its next generation wing technologies aligned to its Wing of Tomorrow programme, which is part of a global Airbus investment in research and innovation.
AMRC Cymru www.amrc.co.uk/facilities/amrc-cymru-wales