Big Announcement – Please Read! Hi everyone, The story so farWhen we first started up way back in March, our goal was a clear one, to meet the overwhelming demand for PPE whilst official production lines caught up, and to help stem the spread of the virus by protecting the front line Read more…
As part of our sanitation process, our team of engineers has been working hard since the start of HTP to produce machines that can automate part of the process, making us more efficient, and reducing the need for people in the factory, further reducing the risk of infection spread. Out Read more…
Hack The Pandemic has been operating for over 3 months now and in that time we’ve produced and distributed over 10,000 face covers, almost 6,000 mask clips, and over 1,500 UEA DoorMate tools. We thought you may be interested to see where all this HTP equipment has ended up so Read more…
Here’s a glimpse inside the workings of our factory where we process everything we produce before it’s distributed. Everything our makers produce is brought to our factory where it’s logged, quality checked, stress tested, and run through a multi-stage sanitation process including UV light, cleansing and medical grade alcohol baths, Read more…
Today we held our first live Q&A session on our facebook page, answering any questions you had for us about what we do, how we are tackling the new regulations, or anything else you may have been interested in. Whilst the Q&A is now over, you can watch it back Read more…
Exciting and positive news as we work towards overcoming the new government regulations.
This week the UK government announced new requirements which prevents organisations such as us from producing and distributing PPE without obtaining a CE certification. Despite the fact that our designs and process (including our 3 stage sanitation setup) has been prepared alongside discussions and recommendations with the NHS, and that Read more…
We are happy to announce that in addition to the Hack The Pandemic face shields and mask clips, you can now also request the UEA DoorMate tool. The DoorMate is a tool designed by Dr Aram SAEED at the University of East Anglia aimed at reducing cross contamination in hospitals Read more…
At Hack The Pandemic we are doing all we can to help as many people as we can, but there is only so much we can do and so far we can reach. Over the past few weeks, we’ve been contacted be people as far as California and Brazil, asking Read more…
Hack The Pandemic featured on BBC’s Points West during the lunchtime and evening news earlier today (16th April). The segment showed our fantastic volunteers 3D printing, quality testing, sanitising, and packing PPE face shields in our pop up ‘factory’ in Emersons Green Village Hall. Volunteer driver, Hayley Robbins, was interviewed Read more…