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Hygiene Austria to produce FFP2 mask

11 May '20
3 min read
Pic: Hygiene Austria
Pic: Hygiene Austria

Hygiene Austria LP GmbH has announced the production of mouth-nose protective masks in Wiener Neudorf within the context of a joint venture of Lenzing AG and Palmers Textil AG. Company's product portfolio will be expanded to include FFP2 masks. Hygiene Austria originally commenced operations by producing medical mouth-nose protective face masks. 
 
The managing directors of Hygiene Austria gave an initial positive assessment during a plant visit by Margarete Schramböck, federal minister for Digital and Economic Affairs, Johanna Mikl-Leitner, governor of the Federal State of Lower Austria, Jochen Danninger, Lower Austrian state minister of economic affairs and Herbert Janschka, mayor of Wiener Neudorf.
 
“The coronavirus crisis was a necessary wake-up call for us to once again focus more on domestic manufacturing. Hygiene Austria identified the need and not only offered quick help by founding the Austrian company, but also strengthened Austria as a business location,” minister Margarete Schramböck, pleased with the domestic production of mouth-nose protective masks in Lower Austria, said in a press release. 
 
“The media response was enormous. Numerous companies contacted us within just a few hours to place orders worth millions of euros,” Stefan Doboczky, CEO of Lenzing AG, said. The machinery serves as the basis for producing 12 million mouth-nose protective masks per month. This capacity will be increased to about 25 million pieces in a further expansion phase. Additional machines were put into production as a result of the good level of demand. 
 
“Current delivery time is just a few days, and availability is ensured at all times due to the high level of daily production,” Tino Wieser, member of the board of Palmers Textil AG, said in the release.
 
In a further step, an additional machine was acquired to enable the firm to manufacture particle-filtering half masks (FFP2 masks). This machine is currently on its way to the production facility. 
 
Delivery times may deviate due to the different requirements and testing criteria of the masks. “We are striving to quickly increase our capacities and are working full steam ahead to acquire additional machines”, Lenzing AG CEO Stefan Doboczky, said in the release.
 
“Naturally it was a very important goal and we are delighted to have succeeded in attracting the production of high-quality protective masks to Lower Austria. On behalf of the Federal State of Lower Austria, we tried very hard in the project implementation phase to ensure that production could already be ramped up at record speed starting in May. Particularly in a time of crisis, the expansion of Hygiene Austria’s product range creates another roughly 100 jobs in Lower Austria and also represents an important contribution to health care services”, Johanna Mikl-Leitner, governor of the Federal State of Lower Austria, said. 
 
“At the present time there is an enormous shortage of high-quality medical face masks. I therefore would like to thank the cooperation partners Lenzing AG and Palmers Textil AG for selecting the site in Lower Austria for their face mask production. In this way, Austria could rapidly free itself from its dependence on the global market and set up its own production operations,” Jochen Danninger, Lower Austrian state minister of economic affairs, said.

Fibre2Fashion News Desk (JL)

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