Foxconn To Start Making Ventilators At Mount Pleasant Plant

MOUNT PLEASANT, WI — Foxconn is going to start making 10,000 new Medtronic ventilators at its Mount Pleasant manufacturing plant, Foxconn officials said Thursday. Officials say the type of ventilators that will be made in Mount Pleasant will help patients during treatment for COVID-19 during the global pandemic.

Medtronic and Foxconn are currently ramping up plans to produce 10,000 PB560 ventilators over the next year at Foxconn’s Wisconn Valley Science and Technology Park in Mount Pleasant. The ventilators will be marketed and sold by Medtronic.

Officials said the two companies connected after Medtronic publicly shared the design specifications for the PB560 through the Medtronic ventilator open source initiative, which launched earlier this year.

Foxconn officials said the ventilators that will be made in Mount Pleasant are compact, lightweight, and portable ventilators that provide airway support for both adults and children. They can be used in clinical settings and at home and provides mobile respiratory support.