Designated Key Supplier to the NHS

We’re open for business to support the NHS at this critical time

Agua’s roots lie deep in healthcare, from having manufactured surgical gowns and other healthcare critical apparel for the health service and our armed forces during World War II, to supplying the much more diverse and broader modern public and private healthcare sector today.

This longstanding competence has been formally recognised with the designation of Agua Fabrics as a Key Supplier to the NHS and as such we remain open and operational with all due precautionary measures in place and will endeavour to do so for as long as possible.

Whilst we are proud that our expertise and our commitment to stock can once again serve the nation and support its wonderful NHS at this critical time, we nevertheless remain cognisant of, and duly humbled by the fact that we are but one small cog in a great machine that is battling to keep us all safe and healthy.

Our thanks and deepest gratitude to all those on the front line.

Agua and Covid-19

Some upholstery suppliers are saying their products do prevent the spread of Coronavirus. In common with our peers at Camira our response is that some claims by some companies may in fact be misleading for a variety of reasons:

• No tests have been carried out directly against the human strain of Covid -19 but against a feline strain of Coronavirus
• The contact time of the virus against the fabric is one hour under test whilst in practice it is highly likely to be much longer – no virus let alone Covid 19 exists solely in tightly controlled laboratory conditions.
• The reduction  in viral, activity is a round 92% after one hour contact time, which is considered a medium performance rating rather than “good” or “very good”

What we can say with confidence is that our performance fabrics protect against a wide range bacteria such as MRSA, Salmonella and E.coli which can cause serious additional ill health that must be avoided by anyone already battling a potentially lethal virus infection. No anti-microbial testing has been carried out against Coronavirus, as it is not yet clear what specific strain of virus to test against

The Agua Team

Agua is a UK-based market leader in performance upholstery fabrics. We have global reach supplying the contract market in: Commercial, Cruise, Custodial, Education, Healthcare, Hospitality, Marine and Senior Living.

A combination of technical knowledge with superb practicality and durability: Agua is a family owned business that has been supplying products to the contract market since the 1930s.