Gloor Brothers Ltd is an owner-managed family business based in Burgdorf, Switzerland. For more than 70 years, the regulation of pressure and flow of technical gases has been its core competence. When the business earned EN ISO 13 485 certification in 1994, this core competence was extended to medical technology and continuously expanded in the following years. With the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, the demand for fittings for therapeutic oxygen delivery devices hehas risen sharply, resulting in a capacity bottleneck in the Turning department. Thanks to a long-standing collaboration between Gloor Medical and Tornos, both of these leaders in their respective fields were able to react quickly and make valuable, lifesaving contributions