Diebold Nixdorf joins in pandemic fight

Diebold Nixdorf facilities on two continents helped out as the coronavirus pandemic created supply problems for equipment needed to keep medical workers safe and treat patients.

At corporate headquarters, the company put the 3D printers in its research and development department to work making parts for face shields.

In Paderborn, Germany, the company is a sub-supplier and coats metal parts for a company that makes ventilators carriages.

The company is better known for selling and servicing automatic teller machines, as well as point of sale retail equipment.

“It was good to be able to help,” Mike Jacobsen, senior director for corporate communications, said of the effort.

Diebold Nixdorf started in late March printing the plastic bar used to anchor the face shield. The parts were sent to Operation Shields Up, a California-based project that began making and supplying shields.

Employees later were able to secure and create parts needed to assemble full shields. Some of those have been distributed locally and sent to COVID-19 hot spots in New York City and Detroit. Diebold Nixdorf has produced about 1,000 shields, Jacobsen said.

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