# Hardshell to open £1.5M PPE factory in Cardiff

Hardshell is opening a new £1.5 million PPE factory in Cardiff, the UK's first domestic medical-grade mask factory, to produce FFP3 masks and other PPE, employing up to 40 workers.

- Type: New facility
- Announced: 2020-08-13
- Where: Cardiff, United Kingdom
- Value: $1.97M (1.50M GBP)
- Jobs: 40
- Starts operating: Aug 2020
- Status: announced
- Capacity: 300,000 respirators and 1.5 million other masks per week
- Products: FFP3 masks, FFP2 respirators, surgical masks, reusable face masks
- Sectors: [Industrial Textiles](https://endata.com/sectors/industrial-textiles.md)

## Companies

- [Hardshell](https://endata.com/companies/49561.md)

## Sources

- [nation.cymru](https://nation.cymru/news/news-in-brief-new-ppe-factory-to-open-in-cardiff-later-this-month/), 2020-08-13: "A new £1.5 million PPE factory in Cardiff is due to start production later this month."

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