04.05.2020

McAirlaid's Opens Up New Business

McAirlaid’s Opens Up New Business Article translate from Original Article published on May 1, 2020

Borhorst, German: With the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, Alexander Maksimow wondered how to protect his employees in Rocky Mount, Virginia from the state of Virginia. The first step to take out health insurance that was far from common in the United States. Step two: personal protective clothing. As is well known, protective masks are also included, but they were difficult to obtain and some are still. What could be more obvious than to produce the hygiene articles in demand worldwide?
 The Borghorster entrepreneur comes from a specialist. His company, McAirlaid’s, is a specialist in nonwovens that keep meat and fruit dry in supermarket packaging, but is also used in the hygiene area of bed and wound dressings, birth and surgical mats, incontinence products or particularly environmentally friendly cigarette filters. So the raw material is there, what was missing was a production machine.
 “It will run in our Berlingerode facility in late June and early July.” Said McAirlaid’s General Manager.
 In the end, there should be around 25 million masks a year. They will be suitable for use in operations.
 In the meantime, and in order to “make a mark locally” as Alexander Maksimow emphasizes, the company has developed a simple mouth and nose protection that is supposed to accompany the store forecasters through the crisis with simple means and therefore for little money. A rubber band on the left and right, soft pulp in the middle, that’s it. Pharmacist Dr. Werner Gajewski, “At the end of the week, the cellulose masks are to be offered in the Allesgut, Bauhaus and Katharinen pharmacies.
 Photo Caption: The protective masks that Borhorster company McAirlaid’s has now developed for the local market in Steinfurt are simple and inexpensive.