Boston packaging business expands operation to include PPE (after giving away thousands of visors for care homes and Pilgrim Hospital)

Under normal circumstances, Kalas Packaging, which is based on the Haven Business Park, is a manufacturer of packaging for food and horticultural products.

However, amid the Covid-19 pandemic, it is now also producing personal protective equipment (PPE).

It has expanded its operation without any investment in equipment or procedures as its core business is printing, cutting, and converting synthetic materials – it gave away thousands of the face shields to support groups for use in local care homes and the town’s Pilgrim Hospital.

Jon Padley, the business’ managing director, explained the visors are based on a ‘simple design taking the best elements from the various designs currently in the market’.

“They are sold at a disposable price of pence not pounds, whilst being robust enough to be used again if sanitised at the end of a shift,” he added.

The business sees PPE playing a key role in the Government’s easing of the lockdown.

Mr Padley explained: “There is no doubt this will be a slow process as lockdown is released in a controlled and phased manner, but the key points we are taking from the Government briefings are that even when all schools, pubs, restaurants, retail outlets and so on are back open again, strict social distancing measures and PPE in the form of face shields will remain in place until a vaccine is found, trialled, manufactured and we are inoculated.”

For more information about the product, visit www.kalaspackaging.co.uk