A factory is being built in 10 days in order to produce one million bottles of hand sanitiser a month, a British chemical company has announced.

Ineos announced plans to build a hand sanitiser plant near Middlesbrough to keep up with soaring demand as the UK enters lockdown in its fight against coronavirus.

The bottles produced in the north of England will supply hospitals, schools, places of work, pharmacies and supermarkets. Products for hospitals will be issued for free, the company said.

A similar factory will be built in Germany to bridge shortages across Europe.

Ineos is Europe’s largest producer of the two main raw materials needed for hospital grade hand sanitiser at its sites in Grangemouth, Scotland and in northern Germany, and produces almost 1 million tonnes.

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