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Almost 300 new jobs have been created by a Black Country manufacturer after it won a government contract to supply PPE to NHS staff.

Tividale-based Ramfoam, which was founded in 1995, specialises in making polyethylene-grade foam products for use in packaging, medical devices, aerospace and military applications.

It is now supplying reusable protective headbands to healthcare staff to help combat the spread of covid-19 after scaling up its operations to meet national demand, producing three million a day for the NHS.

The headbands can be connected to an anti-fog visor and are supplied to the NHS as self-assembly kits which can be put together and adjusted to fit.

Around 130 of the jobs are based at Ramfoam's facility in Tividale, which operates alongside its main plant in Oldbury exclusively to manufacture the Ramfoam Care Protective Visor.

A further 164 jobs have been created across its supply chain throughout the West Midlands.

International director Timothy Mulqueen said: "Our primary motivation throughout this whole project has been to protect the NHS and help save lives and we're proud to have been able to create a large number of new roles in the West Midlands as part of that goal.

"For our staff, nothing is more motivating than knowing they are helping to support frontline healthcare workers every day."

Ramfoam said it was now looking to widen its offering by making the visors commercially available across the º£½ÇÊÓƵ.