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John Glover

Scottish PPE supplier invests £4.8m in manufacturing facility

Alpha Solway has launched a new manufacturing facility following a £4.8m investment.

The PPE manufacturer received backing from South of Scotland Enterprise (SOSE), enabling it to create its own raw materials on-site and deliver new jobs.

The company has now started production of meltblown polypropylene, the virus filtering material used in its FFP2 and IIR facemasks, at a newly-built factory in Dumfries.

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