Our team of 12 engineers designed concepts for the visor and a prototype was tested locally by medics last weekend to allow production to start as soon as possible.
An initial batch will reach front line medical staff in the next few days and we will produce 100,000 of the masks a week and will be able to supply them directly to help speed up supply to staff working for health trusts and organisations across the region and the UK.
Gavin Ashe, Managing Partner of Kite, said: “Like many companies we wanted to help and realised that we had the capabilities in-house to design a face visor which