How Boddingtons Plastics is responding to Coronavirus

Medical device manufacturer, Boddingtons, has lately been resourcing fast-tooling and moulding projects in relation to emergency procurement for the COVID-19 crisis.

CEO Andy Tibbs said: “Some lines of enquiry in the past three weeks have been unrealistic and unworkable but others – such as our latest project for filter housings for a COVID-19 face mask – have involved around the clock design, fast tooling and moulding in order to get into the medical frontline.”

Boddingtons has geared its engineering resources and production capabilities in order to help meet the current threat of the Coronavirus, turning drawing to product in less than two weeks which included the manufacture of mould tooling to support.

Every morning at 7am Tibbs chairs a three-man council of Operations, Sales and Finance functions in order to meet existing manufacturing obligations and to try and factor in new enquiries such as the innovative Covid-19 mask filter housings.

Tibbs added: “Projects designed for our recently expanded Class 7 cleanroom would normally take months and years to fully design develop into full production. COVID-19 will change all of that. We expect a batch of consequences to not only reshape the future of medical devices and technology but also to be mindful of shortening the supply chain; reshoring vital medtech manufacturing back to the UK.”

Recent investments at Boddingtons – in Class 7 cleanroom expansions; in the Mitutoyo Quick Vision Active CMM machine and in the universal MDSAP medical quality qualification – all aim to enable speedy introduction of medical manufacturing.