V-MIL Audit: Screwfix

Audit Phase: V-MIL Domain Audit Target Company: Screwfix (subsidiary of Kingfisher plc) Report Date: May 2026

Direct Defence Contracting & Procurement

Ministry of Defence & IDF Contracts

No public evidence identified of any direct contract, tender award, framework agreement, or MOU between Screwfix or its parent Kingfisher plc and the Israeli Ministry of Defence (IMOD), the Israel Defence Forces (IDF), Israel Prison Service, or Israel Border Police. No such contract appears in any procurement database, defence trade directory, or corporate disclosure covered by this audit.

No corporate press releases or government announcements detailing defence cooperation, joint ventures, or partnership agreements between Screwfix/Kingfisher and Israeli defence entities have been identified. Screwfix does not appear in SIBAT (Israel’s Defence Export & Defence Cooperation Directorate) listings, international defence exhibition catalogues, or Israeli or UK defence procurement registries accessible to this audit.

The 2020 PPE Procurement — Institutional Supply Assessment

In April 2020, Kingfisher plc issued a press release confirming procurement of three million face masks from suppliers in “China and Israel” for distribution across its UK retail banners, explicitly including B&Q and Screwfix.¹ This constitutes a verified corporate fact: Kingfisher procured PPE from an Israeli manufacturer during the COVID-19 emergency period.

The prior analytical document consulted during research identifies the Israeli supplier as Supergum Industries Ltd (trading as Impertech Safety). This identification cannot be independently confirmed from the Kingfisher press release alone, which does not name the Israeli supplier.¹ Supergum Group issued a contemporaneous PR Newswire release in 2020 actively marketing PPE production capacity and consultancy to governments and healthcare providers,² establishing that Supergum was engaged in precisely this market segment during the relevant period and making the identification commercially plausible. Supergum’s own corporate website confirms its Impertech safety division and manufacturing history since 1956.³ However, no primary corporate disclosure, investigative journalism piece, or independent NGO database entry accessible to this audit confirms by name that Supergum was the specific Israeli supplier to Kingfisher in 2020. This identification is therefore carried as plausible but unconfirmed at primary-source level.

Independent of any Kingfisher connection, Who Profits Research Centre documents Supergum Industries as operating a manufacturing facility in the Barkan Industrial Zone, an Israeli industrial settlement located in the occupied West Bank.⁴⁵ Who Profits further documents Supergum as a manufacturer of rubber and plastic protective equipment with confirmed supply relationships with the IDF, including production of components for the Simplex gas mask system.⁴ The Barkan Industrial Zone is a designated Israeli industrial settlement park in the West Bank, established on land within the occupied Palestinian territory.⁵

Synthesis: The verified facts are: (i) Kingfisher procured PPE from an Israeli manufacturer in April 2020¹; (ii) Supergum was actively marketing institutional PPE supply during that same period²; (iii) Supergum operates from the Barkan Industrial Zone, an occupied-territory settlement facility⁴⁵; and (iv) Supergum has documented IDF supply relationships⁴. The inferential link — that Kingfisher’s Israeli supplier was specifically Supergum — is analytically coherent but remains unconfirmed by any primary source identified in this audit.

Sion Medical — Unverified Claim

A prior analytical document consulted during this audit asserts that Kingfisher also engaged Sion Medical Ltd for wound care and PPE supplies. Sion Medical is a real Israeli company headquartered in Sderot, manufacturing medical and trauma dressings.⁶⁷ No primary source, investigative report, corporate disclosure, or news article accessible to this audit confirms a procurement relationship between Kingfisher/Screwfix and Sion Medical. The Kingfisher 2020 press release¹ does not name Sion Medical. This claim is not carried forward as a verified finding.

Dual-Use Products & Tactical Variants

Palram Industries — Polycarbonate Products

Screwfix retails polycarbonate roofing and glazing sheet products through its online and trade catalogue.⁸ These include products from Palram Industries, an Israeli multinational listed on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange (TASE: PLRM), headquartered at Kibbutz Ramat Yohanan, Israel.⁹¹⁰

Palram’s corporate product range extends substantially beyond civilian construction thermoplastics (its Suntuf, Sunlite, and Palruf roofing ranges). The company operates a dedicated security and protection division producing Palshield and Palgard layered polycarbonate systems, marketed explicitly for ballistic resistance, forced entry resistance, riot control shields, and transparent armour applications for military vehicles.⁹ These products are described in Palram’s own corporate materials as suitable for law enforcement and defence applications.⁹ Palram operates a UK processing and logistics facility in Doncaster,¹¹ meaning that some products entering the UK supply chain may be processed domestically, though the parent legal entity, TASE listing, and product IP ownership remain Israeli.

Palram is a single consolidated corporate entity: its civilian glazing revenues and its security/ballistic product revenues are not ring-fenced in publicly available corporate filings accessible to this audit. The specific polycarbonate sheets retailed by Screwfix are civilian-grade construction products. No public evidence has been identified that Screwfix has sold Palshield or Palgard ballistic-grade products. The dual-use concern therefore rests on the shared corporate entity, manufacturing technology base, and consolidated revenue structure — not on direct Screwfix sales of ballistic products.

No specific confirmed contract between Palram’s security division and the IDF or Israeli security forces appears in any source accessible to this audit, notwithstanding that the product lines are explicitly marketed for those applications.⁹ No export licence applications, end-user certificates, or export control reviews related to Screwfix/Kingfisher sales of Palram products have been identified.

Kapro Industries — Measurement Tools

Screwfix retails Kapro spirit levels and laser measurement tools.¹² Kapro is an Israeli manufacturer headquartered at Kibbutz Kadarim in the Upper Galilee, within the Green Line (not a West Bank settlement).¹³¹⁴¹⁵ No primary source, procurement record, or investigative report accessible to this audit confirms a supply relationship between Kapro and the IDF or any Israeli security force. Claims in prior analytical documents of IDF Combat Engineering Corps procurement of Kapro tools are assessed as unverified inference from product type and are not carried forward.

Similarly, claims that Kapro OEM-manufactures Kingfisher own-brand measurement tools (Magnusson/Erbauer lines) are described in prior documents as “highly probable based on industry standards.” No sourcing contract, OEM disclosure, or supply chain filing confirms this. The claim is speculative and not verified.

Erbauer/Titan Commercial Presence in Israel

An Israeli online retailer, Adi Hameiri, lists a product compatible with the Erbauer ERI1086CSW circular saw on its retail catalogue.¹⁶ This establishes that Erbauer-compatible or Erbauer-branded accessories are available through at least one Israeli commercial channel. It does not confirm a formal Kingfisher distribution agreement with Israeli retailers: the product could represent grey-market importation. A claim in prior documents that a formal distribution agreement exists between Kingfisher and Israeli retail partners is unverified at primary-source level.

Own-Brand Tool Lines

Screwfix/Kingfisher own-brand tool lines — Erbauer, Titan, and Magnusson — are civilian trade tools with no identified mil-spec variant, ruggedised tactical configuration, or confirmed Israeli military sales in any source accessible to this audit.

Heavy Machinery, Construction & Infrastructure

Screwfix is a trade retailer of hand tools, power tools, fixings, plumbing consumables, electrical supplies, sealants, and related building materials. Its retail and catalogue range does not encompass heavy construction plant equipment — excavators, bulldozers, armoured engineering vehicles, cranes, or equivalent machinery — of the type documented by NGOs (including Human Rights Watch¹⁷) in connection with settlement construction, land clearance, or demolition in occupied Palestinian territory.

No public evidence has been identified — in NGO investigations, UN documentation, investigative journalism, or news reports — of Screwfix-branded or Kingfisher-sourced equipment appearing in documented construction, demolition, or infrastructure activity within Israeli settlements, the separation barrier, military installations, or other occupied territory sites.

No public evidence has been identified of any Screwfix or Kingfisher contract for the construction, maintenance, servicing, or expansion of checkpoints, detention facilities, military bases, the separation barrier, or settlement infrastructure in Israel or the occupied Palestinian territory.

Supply Chain Integration with Defence Primes

Israeli Defence Prime Supply Chain

No public evidence has been identified of Screwfix or Kingfisher providing components, sub-systems, raw materials, or specialist manufacturing services to Elbit Systems, Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI), Rafael Advanced Defense Systems, or Israel Military Industries (IMI/Elbit Land). Screwfix’s product range — fixings, power tools, plumbing and electrical consumables, hand tools, sealants — is not of the type classified as defence-prime inputs such as optical systems, electronic sub-assemblies, propulsion components, guidance systems, or armour materials.

No joint development programmes, co-production agreements, technology transfer arrangements, or licensed manufacturing agreements between Screwfix/Kingfisher and any Israeli defence firm have been identified.

The TradePoint/MRO Indirect Supply Argument

A prior analytical document argues that because Elbit Systems operated UK manufacturing facilities (at Shenstone, Bristol, and Kent sites)¹⁸ until at least 2025 — with the Guardian reporting in September 2025 that Elbit closed a UK facility following Palestine Action direct action campaigns¹⁹ — maintenance contractors serving those facilities would “inevitably” procure consumables and MRO supplies through Screwfix TradePoint trade accounts, making Screwfix an indirect MRO supplier to UK Elbit operations.

This argument is inference, not documented evidence. No procurement record, Elbit Systems supply chain disclosure, or named investigative finding identifies Screwfix as a named MRO supplier to any Elbit UK facility. Declassified UK has published investigations into UK firms supplying Elbit Systems¹⁸; neither that investigation nor the Guardian reporting¹⁹ names Screwfix. This pathway is noted as a theoretical supply chain exposure without evidentiary support and is not carried forward as a verified finding.

Keter / Hamat Settlement Supply Chain

Keter Group historically operated two factories in the Barkan Industrial Zone, documented across multiple independent NGO sources.^20212223 This is verified. Keter divested its Lipski Plastic subsidiary (c. 2014–2015), which was subsequently acquired by Hamat Group.²⁰²⁴²⁵ Hamat Group continues to operate the former Lipski facility in Barkan.²⁴²⁶

Screwfix retails Keter shed and garden storage products.²⁷²⁸ Keter’s primary manufacturing footprint, following the Lipski divestment, is understood to have shifted outside the West Bank, though the precise current manufacturing locations of all Keter SKUs sold in the UK market are not independently confirmed in sources accessible to this audit. The Wikipedia entry for Keter Group²⁹ provides corporate background; CJPME²² and Who Profits²¹ document the Barkan operations. The UNJPPI Keter fact sheet (September 2024)²³ and the Who Profits divestment report²⁰ together document the Lipski divestment and the Hamat acquisition of the Barkan facility.

A claim in prior analytical documents that Kingfisher’s Flomasta own-brand plumbing fittings are OEM-manufactured by Hamat Group from the Barkan facility is not confirmed by any primary source, shipping manifest, OEM disclosure, or investigative report accessible to this audit. This is assessed as speculative inference based on Hamat’s export profile and is not carried forward.

Logistical Sustainment & Base Services

Service Contracts to Military Installations

No public evidence has been identified of Screwfix or Kingfisher holding service contracts — covering catering, transport, fuel supply, waste management, facilities maintenance, or telecommunications — for IDF bases, military training facilities, detention centres, or security installations in Israel, the occupied West Bank, Golan Heights, East Jerusalem, or the Negev.

Shipping, Freight & Port Services — ZIM Nexus Assessment

Kingfisher plc is a high-volume importer from Asian sourcing markets. Its scale (group revenue of approximately £12.9 billion across annual reporting periods)³⁰³¹ and documented Asian sourcing base establish that Kingfisher is a significant user of global container shipping alliances. However, Kingfisher does not disclose its freight forwarder or carrier relationships in annual reports or investor materials at the level of named shipping line.³⁰³¹

ZIM Integrated Shipping Services is an Israeli state-linked container carrier. The Israeli government retains a “golden share” in ZIM, a documented legal mechanism enabling state requisition of the fleet for national security purposes — a matter of public corporate record. ZIM has entered into a series of operational cooperation agreements with mainstream alliance carriers: a 2018 tripartite VSA with ZIM, Maersk Line, and MSC on the Asia–US East Coast trade³²³³ (pre-2020); a 2024 MSC-ZIM cooperation on transpacific lanes³⁴; and a further MSC-ZIM collaboration reported in early 2025.³⁵

No public evidence confirms that Kingfisher plc or Screwfix specifically books freight through MSC or Maersk on routes where VSA slot-sharing causes Kingfisher cargo to travel on ZIM-operated vessels. The ZIM-nexus argument in prior documents rests on statistical probability — that a large UK importer using mainstream carriers would be exposed to ZIM vessels through VSA slot-sharing — rather than documented evidence. This is a theoretical structural exposure, not a verified procurement or logistical relationship, and is noted as such. No verified shipping, freight forwarding, or port handling contracts specifically servicing Israeli defence logistics or military cargo have been identified for Screwfix or Kingfisher.

Munitions, Weapons Systems & Strategic Platforms

No public evidence has been identified of any Screwfix or Kingfisher role in the manufacture, supply, or servicing of lethal platforms or munitions systems of any type.

• Lethal Systems Manufacturing: Screwfix and Kingfisher are retail and trade supply businesses with no manufacturing role in small arms, artillery, armoured vehicles, unmanned aerial systems, naval vessels, or equivalent lethal platforms.
• Munitions & Precursor Materials: Screwfix does not retail ammunition, explosive ordnance, chemical propellants, warhead components, or munitions precursor materials of any description.
• Strategic & Existential Defence Systems: No public evidence of any Screwfix or Kingfisher role in Iron Dome, David’s Sling, Arrow missile defence, fighter aircraft programmes, main battle tanks, warships, or ballistic missile systems.
• Sub-System & Critical Component Supply: No public evidence of supply of guidance electronics, fire-control systems, radar components, propulsion units, or warhead casings by Screwfix or Kingfisher to any Israeli or other defence weapons programme.

Export Licensing, Regulatory & Legal History

Export Licence Decisions

No public evidence has been identified of any government decision — in the UK, EU, or any other jurisdiction — to grant, deny, suspend, or revoke export licences for Screwfix or Kingfisher products destined for Israeli military or security end-users. UK export licensing data (HMRC/ECJU) is not searchable at the named-exporter level in publicly accessible databases without live data retrieval.

Arms Embargo & Sanctions Compliance

No public evidence has been identified of investigations, citations, civil penalties, or enforcement actions relating to Screwfix or Kingfisher compliance with arms embargoes, export control regimes, or sanctions affecting defence trade with Israel or any other jurisdiction. Neither company appears in any sanctions enforcement record accessible to this audit.

Legal Challenges & Judicial Review

No public evidence has been identified of court proceedings, judicial reviews, or legal challenges brought against Screwfix, Kingfisher plc, or against any government body regarding a Screwfix/Kingfisher defence supply relationship with Israel. No litigation or regulatory proceeding of this nature appears in any source accessible to this audit.

Corporate Governance & Disclosure Instruments

Kingfisher plc maintains a published Human Rights Policy³⁶ and Supply Chain Workplace Standards (2024 version),³⁷ both publicly available, which explicitly reference human rights due diligence obligations for high-risk sourcing geographies. The Modern Slavery Act Statement 2023–24³⁸ addresses supply chain labour standards. None of these instruments reference Israeli or occupied-territory sourcing specifically in sections accessible to this audit, and none address defence end-use monitoring. No public statement, policy change, contract termination, or end-use monitoring commitment specifically related to Israeli defence supply chain concerns has been publicly issued by Screwfix or Kingfisher plc.

Civil Society Scrutiny & Documented Investigations

NGO Investigations Naming Screwfix or Kingfisher

No dedicated NGO investigation or academic report specifically targeting Screwfix or Kingfisher plc’s military, security, or occupation-related supply chain has been identified in sources accessible to this audit.

• Who Profits Research Centre documents Supergum Industries’ presence in the Barkan Industrial Zone and its IDF supply relationships⁴⁵ and separately documents Keter Plastic’s historical Barkan operations.²⁰²¹ Neither profile names Screwfix or Kingfisher plc as a party of interest or as a customer.
• AFSC Investigate documents Hamat Group’s operations, including the Lipski Plastic facility acquired from Keter, in the Barkan Industrial Zone.²⁴ The AFSC Investigate profile does not name Screwfix or Kingfisher as customers.
• UNJPPI Keter Fact Sheet (September 2024)²³ documents Keter’s historical West Bank operations and the Lipski-to-Hamat divestment; does not name Screwfix.
• Human Rights Watch — Occupation, Inc. (January 2016)¹⁷ analyses settlement business models broadly and does not name Screwfix.
• CNCD-11.11.11 Don’t Buy into Occupation V Report (November 2025)²⁶ covers settlement economy supply chains in its documented scope. Whether this report specifically names Screwfix or Kingfisher as buyers of Hamat, Keter, or Palram products cannot be confirmed without live document retrieval; this remains unverified as to Screwfix-specific content.

Boycott & Divestment Campaigns

• Keter Group has been the subject of organised BDS campaigns documented by CJPME²² and Who Profits²¹, specifically related to its Barkan Industrial Zone operations. These campaigns target Keter as a company; they do not specifically target Screwfix as a downstream retailer of Keter products.
• Palram Industries appears on BDS-adjacent consumer boycott lists as an Israeli company.³⁹ No institutional divestment decisions by pension funds or sovereign wealth funds specifically citing Palram’s relationship with Screwfix have been identified.
• No organised boycott, divestment, or exclusion campaign specifically targeting Screwfix or Kingfisher plc by name — as distinct from general campaigns targeting the Israeli brands it retails — has been identified in sources accessible to this audit.
• No institutional divestment decisions citing Screwfix or Kingfisher’s defence or occupation-related supply chain relationships have been identified.

Corporate Response to Civil Society Pressure

No public statement, supplier review announcement, contract termination, revised sourcing policy, or end-use monitoring commitment specifically related to the Israeli defence or settlement supply chain concerns documented in this audit has been publicly issued by Screwfix or Kingfisher plc. The companies have not publicly addressed the Supergum identification, the Palram security product division, or any of the associated civil society claims. Kingfisher’s existing published human rights³⁶ and supply chain standards³⁷ do not address these specific concerns.

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