A KEIGHLEY-based firm has invested over £2 million and created 100 new jobs to produce personal protective equipment (PPE) for frontline NHS staff and social care workers. PFF Group has installed custom-built machines and taken-on the extra employees after being awarded a contract by the Department for Health and Social Care to manufacture 360 million disposable polythene aprons. The company – which is also maintaining its more-normal role of producing food packaging – collaborated with British machine manufacturer Hanbury-Autogil to design and commission two specialist pieces of equipment. Kenton Robbins, managing director of PFF Group, said: “Demand for personal protective equipment has soared globally, with 210 million plastic aprons needed every week in the NHS alone.