With stringent health and safety requirements around the use of ethanol (alcohol) – the main ingredient in hand sanitizer – our Leeds factory was well-placed to start producing supplies quickly, as ethanol is already used in some of the products manufactured at the site.
As well as working on the formulation of the product, we needed to check that all the necessary safety measures were in place and to sanitize the equipment. We then had to source the raw materials and packaging, with some ingredients already on-site and others coming from Unilever facilities elsewhere in the UK and Europe, as well as from third-party suppliers. More than 10,000 bulk containers were shipped to us by our suppliers within just hours of requesting them.