Lamborghini boosts COVID-19 efforts by helping in development of ventilators

• Super sports car maker teams up with top Italian ventilator manufacturer Siare
• 18 breathing simulators produced at Sant’Agata facility using 3D printers
• Latest collaboration follows Lamborghini’s production of masks, medical shields

Strengthening its efforts at curbing the further spread of COVID-19, Automobili Lamborghini is providing resources and equipment from its Research and Development Department for the co-engineering and production of breathing simulators to support Siare Engineering International Group, Italy’s top manufacturer of ventilators.

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The breathing simulator enables the tester to carry out an initial evaluation of the ventilator’s performance before reaching the final checking stage, when the ventilator undergoes a comprehensive test using certified equipment.

Lamborghini in the past two weeks has used its 3D printing laboratory to design, produce and validate the simulator, optimizing the components and enabling the production of 18 simulators per week. 

The development of breathing simulators with Siare complements Lamborghini’s move of converting some departments of its Sant’Agata manufacturing plant to create medical equipment—surgical masks and protective plexiglass medical shields—for use in the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic.

Production of the surgical masks—donated to a hospital in Bologna—are being done by artisans at the saddlery from where the interiors and other special customized touches for Lamborghini cars come. The line churns out 1,000 masks a day. 

The medical shields are made alongside the breathing simulators for Siare. Both are produced using a highly precise HP Jet Fusion 3D 4200 printer with MJF technology.

The collaboration with Siare, as well as the earlier one with the University of Bologna’s Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences in making surgical masks and medical shields, is seen as a testament to Lamborghini’s societal commitment and its capability to use advanced technologies in battling the pandemic.