Optima creates folding machine to increase mask production capacities

摘要

The Corona crisis poses a very special challenge. In order to make their contribution to overcoming the situation, companies from the Schwaebisch Hall county have decided to enter into an unusual cooperation. One such company is Wrapping Solutions who specialise in producing interior fittings for cars but decided to produce mouth and nose protection masks. Since 23 March, around 24,000 masks per day are sewn at 20 workplaces. In the long term, the company plans to expand to 40 sewing workstations. Optima now supports operations by optimising the work processes. "We have built a device for folding face masks and successfully put it into operation at Wrapping Solutions," said Werner Volk, who is in charge of new applications at Optima Life Science. This was previously done manually and proved to be a bottleneck. The machine-made fabric blanks are folded in the station, ultrasonically welded on both sides, then loops are sewn on.