For many businesses, going digital has been the key for survival during the pandemic, but it's not that straightforward for the manufacturing sector.
North Shields based Bay Plastics started as a small shop in a converted flat and evolved to become a plastics stockist, designer and fabrication specialist operating from a state of the art 40,000 sq ft manufacturing plant and supplying customers across the globe. And then COVID-19 arrived, putting all businesses in the sector under extreme pressure.
In this podcast corporate lawyer Matthew Walsh talks to Michael Currell, Bay Plastics MD, about the growth of his business, the steps taken to quickly diversify as the pandemic struck and what he thinks the future holds.