The company Wrapping Solutions from Rosengarten near Schwäbisch Hall specializes in producing interior fittings for cars. In the face of the coronavirus crisis, the company has decided to produce face masks. Since March 23, a maximum of 24,000 masks per day have been sewn at 20 workstations. The long-term plan is to expand to 40 sewing stations. The aim is to produce in two shifts. "According to estimates, around 14 million protective masks are needed in Germany every day," says Managing Director Wolfgang Schaller.
Optima is now helping the company to optimize its work processes. "We have built a device for folding face masks and successfully put it into operation at Wrapping Solutions on March 31," reports Werner Volk, who is responsible for new applications at OPTIMA life science GmbH. This was previously done by hand and proved to be a bottleneck in production. The machine-produced fabric blanks are folded in the station and ultrasonically welded on both sides. In the final step, loops are sewn onto the masks.