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A Sheffield cardboard box company has lifted the lid on its part in delivering a new economy that has sprung up during the pandemic.

Holdsworth Packaging has been stacked out after locked down companies switched to deliveries.

General manager Justin Harding said: “We have adapted, shuffled and juggled work around so we have been able to meet customer demand and hopefully our place in the chain is proving vital and important to the local economy and indeed the health interests of all.”

Since the outbreak, the company, on Carley Drive, Westfield, has supplied local businesses who are:

From left: Chris and David Holdsworth and Justin Harding in the factory at Holdsworth Packaging.

- Supplying ventilator parts

- Manufacturing shields for shop tills

- Developing and supplying ‘industrial’ hand sanitiser dispensers

- Producing face masks/shields (local schools who using the laser cutting equipment)

- Providing food hampers

- Providing fruit and veg shops with boxes for home deliveries

- Producing dairy products

Sheffield cardboard box maker is delivering the new economy