“Their engineers usually head out to assist with installation but as a result of the Ebola threat, engineers employed by aid organisations and agencies are being sent to be trained up at the plant in Canning Road Industrial Estate instead.

Mr Niklas added:”They first contacted us when the outbreak began a few months ago. But we’re geared up for these things, anyway. The last time demand was like this was the Iraq War. We’ve set up another plant so when it does happen we can manage it.”

British Army medics were sent to Sierra Leone yesterday as global leaders promised to measure the global community’s efforts to stop the spread of this disease that has thus far taken more than 4,000 lives.

Mr Niklas said:”We feel really proud of the fact that they have come to us and that we’ve got a item that’s part of the solution.

“Because this has to be contained at the source.

“whenever you start trying to move waste, it may spread further and further.

“Our incinerators burn at 850 degrees Celsius which burns off the toxins, then in the second chamber they burn the gases from that at 1,200 degrees so what is coming out of the chimney is clean.

“And our incinerators are portable, too, so they may be carried to the source.”

Sales and marketing manager Paul Niklas said they had more than a hundred orders from global organisations and aid agencies, including the United Nations and the Red Cross.

He also said the majority of their workforce was dedicated to manufacturing the incinerators.