The plant in Roanne (Loire) in Valmy has been running at full speed since the start of the week.
This mask producer, a subsidiary of the French company Segetex, has seen the demand for FFP2 masks increase significantly since January 18.
“For a week now, we have been registering new orders for FFP2 from industrialists, French hospitals and European states, whereas in recent months demand has mainly focused on surgical masks”
, notes Laurent Suissa, CEO of Segetex, who displays a monthly production capacity of 20 million FFP2 masks.
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The same goes for another historic manufacturer in France, Kolmi-Hopen, a subsidiary of the Canadian group Medicom, whose factory Emmanuel Macron visited near Angers (Maine-et-Loire) last year in the midst of a shortage of masks. .
“We have noticed an increase in demand since the end of last week, coming first from Germany and then from France
,” indicates Gérard Heuliez, general manager of Kolmi-Hopen, which manufactured
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