A freight company in Chesterfield is transporting vital PPE equipment from the Netherlands to the UK and Ireland to support frontline NHS staff and shop workers during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Twice a week for the past two months, Hastings Freight in Barlborough, working alongside their European partners, have collected pallets of protective face masks 1,500 miles away in Geldrop in the Netherlands from the Sanders Group – the sister company of Magnetic Solutions in Sheffield, which has been a customer of Hastings Freight for the past ten years.
Magnetic Solutions supplies a range of products such as magnetic tape, sheets, rolls and flooring to industries including retail and automotive sectors. At the start of the pandemic, the company switched production from their usual products to much-needed PPE equipment. Jon Denton, general manager comments: “At the start of the Covid-19 crisis, our managing director suggested we changed our production capabilities to help those on the frontline. We use visor material in the products we manufacture in-house so making the jump to protective face masks wasn’t a massive challenge for us. Initially we supplied some of the large retailers and it quickly became apparent that PPE was desperately needed by the NHS, care homes and local authorities.”
Gary Askwith, commercial director at Hastings Freight, added: “We currently provide Magnetic Solutions with a twice-weekly service however, we fully expect to make daily collections from the Netherlands within the not too distant future.”
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