{"id":1115,"date":"2018-07-27T08:57:46","date_gmt":"2018-07-27T08:57:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.bpfonline.co.uk\/?p=1115"},"modified":"2025-12-05T15:43:05","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T15:43:05","slug":"summer-2018-european-shutdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bpfonline.co.uk\/blog\/summer-2018-european-shutdown\/","title":{"rendered":"Summer 2018 European Shutdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Its that time of year again &#8211;\u00a0Do you need to stock up before August?<\/h2>\n<p>Here at BPF we are constantly striving to offer an extensive, economical, and innovative\u00a0range of products to our customers. This means that to complement items produced here from our own tooling, we also source a number of products from partner factories across the globe. 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