Stock PPE, owned by Newark family, will create 50 new jobs after opening new £500,000 warehouse in Caistor

A company, owned by a Newark family, that produces personal protective equipment is expanding after investing £500,000 in a new warehouse facility.

Family-owned Stock PPE will create 50 new jobs over the next three years after opening its new warehouse in Caistor, which will act as its new home.

The owners, who also run 888 Vapour in Newark, said the huge demand for PPE meant that their existing premises in North Hykeham were too small.

Group Chief Exec. Liam Chapman, said: “Stock PPE has been able to step up at a time when so many people need protective equipment to keep them safe and we are excited about the future.

“Our reputation, both nationally and internationally is growing and we are confident that in the next three years we will need to find an additional 50 members of staff, with more than half of those needed within the next 12 months.

“We are also pleased to have been able to help in the fight against the spread of covid-19 locally.

“We have donated more than £8,000 worth of much needed hand sanitiser and other protective equipment to charities and organisations helping the most vulnerable across the East Midlands.”

The company has also invested in another fully automated bottling machine.

The machine is capable of bottling multiple bottles and cap types as well as handling free flowing and viscous liquids, which will support their further expansion into the co-pack bottling market.

Automatic labelling capabilities will reduce production time, raising the output to approximately 100,000 litres of hand sanitiser per day — that’s over 1.5 million litres of hand sanitiser produced every two weeks.