Yorkshire-based Brandon Medical, a designer and manufacturer of world-leading integrated, smart technology for primary and secondary care institutions, has more than doubled production at its Leeds factory to manufacture vital equipment to help in the battle against coronavirus.
The company said it is responding to “massive demand” from NHS organisations for its medical technology to help support the treatment of people suffering with the disease.
For more than 70 years, it has provided healthcare professionals with reliable, high-quality and affordable medical equipment packages for operating theatres and critical care.
Brandon Medical is currently manufacturing medical lighting and supplying fail-safe portable power supplies and medical gas systems for intensive treatment units at NHS and world-wide hospitals and trusts.
Executive chairman Graeme Hall said: “Anything the NHS asks that we can do, we do it. We are now producing twice as many products because of the extraordinary demand coming from our national health service.
“Orders for the first five months of the financial year have already exceeded our entire sales for 2019.
“Our factory employees are proud to step up because they know our efforts will play a vital role in helping the NHS to fight coronavirus.”
Earlier this week, Mr Hall sent a message of solidarity to Italian competitor RIMSA, which is based in the stricken Lombardy region and is carrying on production to support the Italian effort.
Carlo Longoni, chief executive of RIMSA, said: “It’s so beautiful to receive your solidarity and to know that even competitors, first we are friends.
“The goal of our job isn’t to make profit, but to put a small drop of water in the big ocean that is our world and make proudly our part.”
Mr Hall said: “This is a sentiment shared by the entire Brandon Medical team. We are putting every effort into production at our Leeds headquarters and going into hospitals to install all the required equipment at the frontline of defence against COVID-19.”
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Brandon Medical is currently manufacturing medical lighting and supplying failsafe portable power supplies and medical gas systems for intensive treatment units at NHS and worldwide hospitals and trusts.
Graeme Hall, executive chairman, said: “Anything the NHS asks that we can do, we do it.
“We are now producing twice as many products because of the extraordinary demand coming from our national health service.
“Orders for the first five months of the financial year have already exceeded our entire sales for 2019.
“Our factory employees are proud to step up because they know our efforts will play a vital role in helping the NHS to fight coronavirus.”
Earlier this week, Mr Hall sent a message of solidarity to Italian competitor RIMSA, which is based in the stricken Lombardy region and is carrying on production to support the Italian effort.
Carlo Longoni, chief executive of RIMSA, said: “It’s so beautiful to receive your solidarity and to know that even competitors, first we are friends.
“The goal of our job isn’t to make profit, but to put a small drop of water in the big ocean that is our world and make proudly our part.”
Mr Hall said: “This is a sentiment shared by the entire Brandon Medical team.
“We are putting every effort into production at our Leeds headquarters and going into hospitals to install all the required equipment at the frontline of defence against COVID-19.”