Gardiner Graphics Group is recognised as a #GREATinspiration as part of the Great Britain & Northern Ireland Campaign. The Great Britain & Northern Ireland Campaign launches #GREATinspiration, an initiative designed to shine light on those who have done extraordinary things during the COVID-19 pandemic. The GREAT Inspirations celebrates businesses that continued to operate for their customers, support their employees and innovativley adapt to a new way of business. In March 2020, with a natural downturn in activity within their sector, Gardiner Graphics Group re-purposed its materials and machinery into the manufacturing of PPE visors. CEO Tom Powell commented “ with such a vast stock of PET right here in the UK and the machinery suited to the job, we recognised the increasing demand for PPE items and wanted to help and wanted to make sure that our Portsmouth manufacturing facility kept moving. To have all the materials and equipment to re-purpose into a much-needed item seemed the right thing to do.” The team quickly started producing up to 20k single use emergency visors per day distributing daily to key workers in a range of sectors. Alongside visor production, the company working tirelessly to deliver over 200 tonnes of recyclable PET in reel and sheet format to other UK businesses looking to apply their own PPE designs, ensuring that other business alike could keep working and keep delivering much needed PPE items.