COVID-19: Companies Who Can Help
Updated: 13/07/2020
The BPF has been working to help government and other organisations to locate suppliers to help support the UK's response to the COVID-19 outbreak. We felt it would be useful to make this list public. Not all companies listed are within BPF membership, so have not necessarily undergone the usual processes required to join, but during the COVID-19 pandemic we are trying to facilitate essential supply chains as much as possible.
If you believe your company should be on this list, please fill out this form here.
If you cannot find a suitable company or would like the BPF to do a bespoke search for you, simply complete the BPF Coronavirus Product & Supplier Search form.
The UK government has also provided an online hub, containing guidance on personal protective equipment (PPE) and infection prevention and control (IPC) for both health and social care settings, as well as other workers and sectors. Please also note that packaging of hand sanitisers needs to fulfill Article 35 of REACH legislation.
A member of the BPF's Business Support Network, Squire Patton Boggs, has produced two documents that maybe useful. These are Key Issues if You Are Starting to Manufacture or Import Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) and Key Issues If You Are Starting to Manufacture or Import Hand Sanitiser.
If your company details below need updating, please contact the BPF via email. Although we have taken care to ensure these details are accurate, due to the changing nature of the situation and the speed of response required, some of the details below may become out of date, or be innaccurate. We will continue to update this page as we receive more information. If you would like your company to be added or removed or know of a company that should be inlcuded please complete the BPF COVID-19 suppliers form.
If you are looking for other products and servcies not covered in the below Crown Commercial Services have published a list of 1000's of companies in their Coronavirus (COVID-19) Supplier Catalogue.
Click the images below to find details of the relevant suppliers...
 Aprons and Gowns |
 Bottles and caps for hand sanitiser |
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 Ventillators: Components & packaging |
 Visors and face shields |
 Other |
Aprons and gowns |
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| Berry bpi | Aprons and gowns | |
| Cromwell Polythene | Manufacturer of polythene sheeting, can also source aprons and gowns. | |
| ICL Tech | Innovative reusable gowns, manufactured in the UK using the best materials to ensure protection, comfort and breathability. Tested to 100 washes following UK Gov / NHS guidelines, the TechPPE gown is economical and sustainable | |
| KB Extruders ltd | Mass manufacturers of disposable polythene aprons | |
| Henley's Medical Supplies | PVC aprons, various sizes, machine and hand washable | |
| Imperial Polythene | Manufacurer of sleevless aprons - made in the UK | |
| PFF Packaging Group Ltd | Disposable polythene aprons | |
| Polystar | New, single-use, lightweight, protective aprons for healthcare professionals are now available from stock. Also manufacturing clinical waste bags and ADR bags. | |
| Skymark Packaging International Ltd | Plastic sheeting film for disposable garment covers (subject to secondary finishing elsewhere) | |
| Tibard | Manufacture reusable gowns | |
| Weldbank Plastic Company | Apron production | |
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Bottles & caps for hand sanitiser |
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Bottles |
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| Alpla | Manufacture of large range of bottles inlclding hand sanitiser bottles | |
| AST Plastic Containers UK LLP | Manufacturer specialising in large containers suitable for cleaning liquids, sanitizers etc. Range is from 3L to 220L | |
| Berry & RPC – M&H Plastics | Supply bottles for hand sanitizer inlcuding 500ml Boston rounds with 28-410 neck. | |
| Caledonian Plastics | Manufacturer of bottles ranging from 500ml to 5 litres | |
| Cambrian Packaging | Bottles - various types including hand sanitizer | |
| Coral Products | Injection moulding and blow moulding company. can supply 500ml and 1l bottles | |
| Esterform Packaging | Supplier of sanitiser bottles | |
| Euro Extrusions / Precision Bottles | Supplier of bottles for hand sanitiser (sister company Precision Bottles) | |
| IPACKCHEM | HDPE 100ml hand sanitiser bottles and up to 1 litre | |
| Jubb UK | 100ml, 50ml, 25ml bottles | |
| MacAlpine Plumbing | Produces approximately 10,000 hand sanitiser products from existing stock | |
| Measom Freer | Make plastic bottles for Hand Sanitiser, Infection Control & Detection and disinfectant measuring scoops | |
| Nolato Jaycare | Manufacturer of wide range of bottles suitable for hand sanitiser | |
| Precision Bottles | Range of bottles (from 10ml upwards) in PET and HDPE | |
| Plastipak | Supply suitable bottles in clarge range of size up to 1000m | |
| Robinson Packaging | Bespoke packaging including bottles: PET and HDPE bottles. | |
| Spectra Packaging Solutions | Bottles from 50ml up to 500ml. | |
| SONE Products | Range of hand sanitizer bottles | |
| Thermo Fisher Scientific | Producer of bottles for soaps and sanitizers. | |
Caps & Closures |
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| Aptar | Supply a variety of dispensers including those suitable for hand sanitisers | |
| Bericap | Manufacturer of closures. Produce closures suitable for hand sanitisers including sports closures for which they have a large capacity | |
| Berry Bramlage | Closures for hand sanitizers | |
| Cambrian Packaging | Closures and pumps for hand-sanitizer | |
| Rieke | Offer a range of dispensers, foamers, tubes, fine mist sprayers and airless systems as well as clousres suitable for hand sanitiser | |
| Scope Next | Offers a variety of high or low dosage pumps and dispenser including those suitable for sand sanitiser | |
| Silgan Plastic Closures | Manufacurer of closures suitable for hand sanitiser | |
Suppliers or Bottles AND Caps & Closures |
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| Berry Bramlage | Closures for hand sanitizers | |
| Berry Superfos | Large containers | |
| FL Plastics | Supply bottles for hand sanitizers and disinfectants; have accesses to the manufacturing of caps and closures through sister group of companies. Produce bottles in PET, LDPE and HDPE and PP | |
| Measom Freer | Extensive range of bottles suitable for hand sanitisers and disinfectants as well as measuring scoops, caps and closures | |
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Clinical Waste Bags, Bins and Liners |
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| Aquapak Polymers Limited | Infection control bag and Anti-infection soluble, laundry bags | |
| Cedo | Orange /Yellow clinical waste sacks, UN accredited | |
| Craemer UK Ltd | Clinicle waste bins UN3219 | |
| Cromwell Polythene Ltd | Clinical waste sacks for infectious waste and bin liners, polythene sheeting | |
| Hanmere | Provide polythene bags, sacks, liners, sheets and tube. | |
| KB Extruders | A leading independent third generation family run company Specialising in the manufacture of polythene sacks | |
| Leedan Packaging Ltd | Polythene bag supplier. | |
| Mauser | Major supplier of medical waste bins | |
| Palagan Limited | Manufacturer of polyethene bags and film produce bags and sacks | |
| Plasmech | Range includes but is not limited to; bags, sacks, liners and sheets for various market sectors including; food processing, injection moulding, retail, manufacturing, pharmaceutical and laundry | |
| Povoas | Provide polythene bags, sacks, liners, sheets and tube. | |
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Medical Mouldings, Components and PPE Production |
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| Amaray Plastics, Dubois Ltd. | Injection moulder | |
| Desch Plantpak | Injection mould, extrude and thermoform | |
| Epsotech | Production potential for range of applications from protective face masks, urgent medical packaging, medical diagnostic devices, to materials within both permanent and temporary hospital infrastructure for doors and corridors which help within hygiene and infection control. Material to support many other applications are also possible. | |
| Flambeau | Injection and blow moulding of plastic components | |
| George Utz Ltd | Plastic injection moulder with fabrication capabilities. | |
| Goodfish Group | Plastic injection moulding and vacuum-forming businesses also offer printing, second-stage assembly and are supported by in-house precision tool-making. | |
| Fenton Precision Engineering | Small mouldings relating to PPE wear and masks | |
| Iota Sigma Manufacturing Ltd | Rapid design/prototype/soft-tooling & immediate manufacture of injection moulded items | |
| Polymermedics | Technical injection moulder (including micro moulding capabilities) | |
| Tex Plastics | Has capacity within its Cleanroom, Whiteroom and General moulding facilities and have assembly capability in both Derby and Barnstaple factories. | |
| WSM Plastics | Supply injection moulding and tooling services as well as manual assembly of products. | |
| Zotefoams PLC | Zotefoams’ Plastazote® LD15 is a lightweight, non-toxic PE foam uniquely suitable for skin contact in medical applications including PPE, where it helps to achieve a secure, comfortable fit. It is produced in blocks (2000mmx1000mmx52mm skin/skin) suitable for conversion, with one block yielding e.g. 1200+ headbands for medical visors. Safety Information: https://www.zotefoams.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Plastazote-LD-white-417.pdf | |
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Sheet and Film (including use for visors) |
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Visors |
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| Ad-Vance Engineering | Single use face shield providing protection from projections of particulate matter in good visibility conditions | |
| Capital Valley Plastics | Polythene sheeting from both virgin and recycled material in a variety of colours including Black, Blue, Red, Green and Clear. Rolls from 2m – 4m width and up to 50m in length, thickness ranges from 32micron (130 gauge) to 500mu (2000 gauge). | |
| Cromwell Polythene Ltd | Polythene sheeting | |
| Eagle Plastics | Thermoplastic Sheet materials | |
| KB Extruders Ltd | Manufacture of high quality sheet and film | |
| Macpac Stockport | Light gauge PETG or polycarbonate | |
| Palram | PVC, PMMA and PC sheets for visors | |
| Pargroup Ltd | PETG, PET, several dimmensions | |
| Peerless Plastics & Coatings Ltd |
Supply Anti-Fog and Anti-Microbial coated sheet material, together with coating services on free issued sheet, mouldings or extrusions; plastic sheet (for visors, etc) as well as raw materials (PET, PP etc) and other healthworker equipment. Can manufacture the visor. Supply sheet in different thickness' ranging from 175-500 micron meters |
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| RENOLIT Cramlington Ltd | General purpose PVC sheeting | |
| Stephen Webster Plastics | Thermoplastic Sheet materials, PET, PETG, APET, RPET. Update 8 April: have stocks from 1mm currently. Anything below 1mm will be back in stock in about two weeks | |
| The Plastic People | Acrylic, Polycarbonate, PVC, Polythene, Polypropolene, several dimensions | |
| Vacuum Formers | Light gauge PETG or polycarbonate | |
Separating panels (offices, etc) |
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| Summit Systems | Separating screens for use in offices and other environments | |
| Advanced Plastic Technology | Protective screens | |
| Aprol International | Supply Raw Acrylic Panels in high volumes | |
| Eagle Plastics | Thermoplastic Sheet materials, includes PC | |
| Macpac Stockport | Light gauge PETG or polycarbonate, includes PC | |
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| Perspex | Acrylice / PC / PETG | |
| Stephen Webster Plastics | Thermoplastic Sheet materials, PET, PETG, APET, RPET | |
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Ventillators: Components and Packaging |
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| 4plas ltd | Health worker equipment | |
| Aztec Mouldings | Ventilators - injection moulding | |
| Agentdraw | Could manufacture either respirators or components for respirators. | |
| Andel Plastics & Maxmag | Able to manufacture components for ventilators and equipment, depending on tooling. Have a cleanroom also that could be used for packaging and assembly prior to going for sterilisation. | |
| Big Bear | Engineer and supply ventilators | |
| Bolton Plastics | |
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| ENL Limited | Plastic injection Moulder and Toolmaker, 22 machines from 15T-1100T, machinery/tool making in house | |
| Iota Sigma | Part of a supply chain that designs, develops, tests and manufactures ventilators. | |
| Kingspan | Manufactures rotational-moulding equipment | |
| McLaren Plastics Ltd | Can easily produce a mould for production of the injection-moulded plastic component | |
| Numatic | Working on a prototype ventilator | |
| RJG Technologies Ltd | Provided that tool is supplied, they can mould any plastic idea up | |
| Rotational Moulding Group | Reusable plastic IBC and drums for transport of chemicals and other goods, Polyethylene cases and enclosures that could be used to house the internal workings of ventilators. | |
| St Davids Assemblies Ltd | Ventilators | |
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Visors and Face Shields |
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| Ad-Vance Engineering | Provide visors and face shields | |
| Advanced Plastic Technology | Safety Visors / face shields | |
| ENL Limited | Face shields and ventilator parts | |
| Fenton Precision Engineering Ltd | Visors, face masks and safety eyewear | |
| ICL Tech Ltd | Developed with NHS consultants and CE marked CAT II PPE, ICL Tech can supply up to 10,000 visors a day. | |
| KB Extruders | Reliable suppliers of face masks and visors | |
| Kingsmoor Packaging | Have designed and produced a single use full-face PPE visor for health workers treating Covid-19. | |
| Kite Packaging | Have devised, designed and supplied protective face visors (capacity 100,000 of the masks a week) | |
| Liniar | produce and stock a large amount of full face visors | |
| LJA Miers | ***Producing for NHS only*** | |
| Manplas | Thermoformer - can manufacture face Masks/visors | |
| MANN+HUMMEL (UK) LTD | Face masks | |
| Mask4Life | Offering large stocks of reusable face masks available in the UK at discounted rates.
Custom company logo masks.
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| MS Company Com Pl | Can provide several types of face shields, gloves and protection suits | |
| McLaren Plastics Ltd | Produced a prototype face shield. Can produce a mould for production of the injection-moulded plastic component | |
| Mouldshop | Safety face mask and visor | |
| Numatic (Henry Hoover manufacturer) | Has developed a faceshield currently in use with Worcestershire NHS Trust, West Midlands Ambulance Service, Birmingham Children’s Hospital and The Gibraltar Health Authority. | |
| PACCOR UK Ltd | Can supply Face Masks, lids and other closures, raw materials, PP, PET, other packaging & containers | |
| Parafix | ***Producing for NHS only*** | |
| Perspex Ltd | Face Shields, sneeze guards - Perspex Sheeting, extruded acrylic, polycarbonate, PetG, PET,solid PVC, aluminium composite and PVC Foam | |
| Ricoh | 3D printing facility and moulding section for visors | |
| Select Uniforms | Supplies face masks in different quantities | |
| Shield NHS | ***Producing for NHS only*** | |
| ShieldWear | Face shields & masks | |
| Shopify World Sourcing | This company provides a vast range of products including face masks, gloves, containers and gowns | |
| Staeger Clear Packaging Solutions | Manufacture face visors for the NHS made from PET with 70% UK approved post-consumer waste (capacity is approximately 100,000 per week but can be expanded) | |
| Surgical Dynamics | Provides face-shields, provding 10,000 per week | |
| Tecman | ***Producing for NHS only*** | |
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Other Suppliers |
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| Albis UK | Distribution & compounding of polymers. Technical experts & consultants for all matters relating to plastics. One of the broadest portfolios worldwide. | |
| Berry Superfos | Wipes containers | |
| Broadway Colours Ltd | Provide plastic colour and additive Masterbatch and/or Compounds used to mould key articles | |
| Clwyd Compounders Ltd | Extensive experience in formulating and compounding elastomer materials four use in PPE, and medical devices, range of polymers mixed frequently and raw materials | |
| Colloids Ltd | Produce raw materials that are sold globally to the chemical polymer producers, moulders and extruders that get used in all of the above applications | |
| Colour Tone Masterbatch Ltd | Able to support in the manufacture of masterbatches and / or plastic compounds in commodity and engineering polymers, with flexible production capacity from small lots to multiple tonnes. | |
| Excelius LTD | Supplies hand sanitizer (not the bottles) - made in UK | |
| JSC Rotational | Supply major parts for hand wash systems | |
| Mitsui & Co. Europe PLC | Supply polymers and possibly also acrylic film. The main polymer is TPX used for injection moulding, extrusion into film, fibres and for extrusion coating onto paper. Can also supply Eval (gas barrier resin) and adhesive resins such as Admer. | |
| Naiad Plastics Ltd | 9mm, 12mm, 17mm, 24mm tubes and stoppers for all sizes | |
| PACCOR UK Ltd | Raw materials and visors | |
| Permabond Engineering Adhesives | Supply a range of adhesives | |
| Plasmatreat | Plasma disinfectantion modules for disinfecting PPE, allowing reuse | |
| ROTOTEK LTD | Training aids and bedside cabinets and effluent storage for makeshift treatment facilities. | |
| ShieldWear | Respirators | |
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