Big Ideas for a Changing World
Big Ideas for a Changing World
McMaster Engineering
The road to making 1 million face shields, with MMRI and Whitebird
41 minutes Posted Oct 20, 2020 at 8:22 pm.
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Hear how the McMaster Manufacturing Research Institute (MMRI) and Hamilton-based packaging company, Whitebird, teamed up to swiftly produce face shields for thousands of Canadian frontline workers since the start of the pandemic. 

Guests: 

Simon Oomen-Hurst, MMRI’s program manager

Peter Tamminga, Whitebird’s operations manager

Interviewed by: John Preston

Produced by: Jessie Park

Edited by: Dan Kim