Avon Rubber secures multi million dollar US defence contract

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Nicky Godding

Avon Rubber plc, based at Melksham, has been awarded a contract with a maximum value of $246 million over a duration of up to 7 years, to supply the U.S. Department of Defense with its M53A1 mask and powered air system and related accessories. The framework contract also covers additional Avon Protection products, including the ST54 self-contained breathing apparatus.

Deliveries are expected to begin in the second half of the current 2019 financial year. The first order will contribute to Avon Rubber's expected Military revenues for the 2019 financial year.

Paul McDonald, Chief Executive Officer at Avon Rubber, said: “This is another significant, multi-year contract for Avon Protection and demonstrates our ongoing focus on technological excellence and innovation leadership as we continue to deliver against our growth strategy.

“Together with the M69 aircrew mask contract announced at the beginning of the year, this underpins our medium term outlook and provides good visibility of revenues going forward.

“We continue to pursue a number of other identified opportunities with the DOD and Rest of World Military customers, which give us further confidence in the Group’s prospects.”

Avon Rubber is an innovative technology group, which designs and produces specialist products and services to maximise the performance and capabilities of its customers.

It specialises in chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear (“CBRN”) and respiratory protection systems, as well as milking point solutions through its two businesses Avon Protection and milkrite | InterPuls.

Avon Protection is the recognised global leader in advanced CBRN respiratory protection systems for the world’s Military, Law Enforcement and Fire markets.

milkrite | InterPuls is a global leader providing complete milking point solutions to farmers across the world with the aim of improving every farm it touches.

Nicky Godding

Nicky Godding is editor of The Business Magazine. Before her journalism career, she worked mainly in public relations moving into writing when she was invited to launch Retail Watch, a publication covering retail and real estate across Europe. After some years of constant travelling, she tucked away her passport and concentrated on business writing, co-founding a successful regional business magazine. She has interviewed some of the UK’s most successful entrepreneurs who have built multi-million-pound businesses and reported on many science and technology firsts. She reports on the region’s thriving business economy from start-ups, family businesses and multi-million-pound corporations, to the professionals that support their growth and the institutions that educate the next generation of business leaders.