GM Accelerates ‘Project V’ to Build Ventilators in Indiana

Parts are machined at Twin City Die Castings, an employee-owned company making aluminum and magnesium parts for ventilator compressors and housings, in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on Feb. 12, 2014. Twin City Die Castings Co/Handout via REUTERS

DETROIT—General Motors Co. and medical equipment maker Ventec are speeding up efforts under a partnership code-named “Project V” to build ventilators at a GM plant in Kokomo, Indiana, to help combat the coronavirus outbreak.

GM said on Monday that work at its Indiana plant, which makes small electronic components for cars, is part of the effort to expand ventilator production. Sources said the GM-Ventec project is known internally as “Project V.”