Porvair adapts manufacturing to support Covid-19 response

Ventilator and breathing apparatus:

• Porvair's Segensworth Division has been selected to support Project Oyster (the British Consortium of carmakers, Formula One teams, and airplane manufacturers) who has been urged to build 10,000 ventilators. Porvair will be supplying flat discs to be used as air filters, to protect against dust ingestion.
• The Wrexham Division is manufacturing filter components for several of the organisations who are now building breathing apparatus to hospitals.
• The Caribou Division is manufacturing and supplying critical porous metal parts for use within ventilators, clinical analysers and respirators.

Medical testing:

• Porvair's Sciences Division has increased production of millions of pipette tips to be used in the USA for their Covid-19 testing kits, as well as supplying consumables for dozens of USA testing laboratories.
• Porvair has supplied bulk filtration media to one of its German distributors to be manufactured into filters for the German Covid-19 testing programme.
• The Wrexham Division is undertaking a rapid development project to use existing DNA extraction products and use the technology to design and manufacture RNA extraction kits.

Pharmaceutical production:

• Porvair is supplying chromatography bed supports and pharmaceutical-grade water to pharmaceutical customers whose production is increasing.
• Sister company Seal Analytical is supplying water quality testing kits and general industrial filters to pharmaceutical and chemical reagent customers for their requirements.

While Porvair has proven that it can rapidly adapt processes to cater for these critical industries, it says that it is continuing to manufacture its broad portfolio of products for its established markets, including aerospace and defence, nuclear, food and beverage and microelectronics. Learn more at www.porvairfiltration.com.