Electronics manufacturing company Adafruit has seen a 90% plunge in sales during the coronavirus pandemic, but it's been able to overhaul its operations to build medical supplies for crisis relief

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• Adafruit, an electronics manufacturing company based in New York City, sprung to action after local officials put out a call for help during the coronavirus pandemic. 
• The company is now putting its 50,000 square foot factory to work building medical devices and PPE to help healthcare workers.
• Meanwhile, it's relying on partners to ship its products to customers. Though, orders have gone way down: Adafruit says that its sales are down 90% during the pandemic. 
• "We're just heads-down and focusing on helping our city get through this," founder and lead engineer Limor Fried told Business Insider.
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Electronics manufacturing company Adafruit is putting its 50,000-square-foot factory in New York City to use for coronavirus crisis relief by building medical devices and PPE.

"We're just heads-down and focusing on helping our city get through this," founder and lead engineer Limor Fried told Business Insider.

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