Cork firm awarded for innovative contribution to Covid-19 effort

Bensons Workwear halted production of their regular stock when the pandemic hit, instead focusing all their efforts on making PPE for Irish hospitals

In response to Covid-19, Bensons Workwear adapted their business to manufacture medical garments and scrubs for the HSE. Picture: Clare Keogh

A Cork firm which manufactures and supplies workwear and school uniforms has been awarded for its innovation in the face of the Covid-19 pandemic.

Midleton-based Bensons Workwear halted production of their regular stock when the pandemic hit, and instead focused all their efforts on making personal protective equipment (PPE) such as surgical gowns for hospitals across Ireland.