GERMANY
BICMA Hygiene Technologie GmbH, which has been part of the W + D Group since 2018, celebrates its 25th anniversary in 2020. The engineering office based in Mayen-Koblenz has expanded its product portfolio with the support of W + D as a strong partner. In response to the global shortage and high demand for high-quality, low-cost face masks, Winkler + Dünnebier's W + D / BICMA hygiene group has developed a fully automatic, high-speed face mask conversion line for the manufacture of high quality, disposable face masks, Auxilium FM.
The new conversion line has a speed of up to 150 m / min (492 ft / min) / up to 800 face masks per minute and can produce up to 1 million high quality face masks per day. It is one of the fastest mask production machines in the world.
Frank Eichhorn, Managing Director of W + D and BICMA, commented: "The corona crisis and the acute lack of face masks prompted us to face this new challenge together: Within a few weeks we developed a completely new high-speed machine, the Auxilium FM, the is able to produce large quantities of up to a million face masks a day.
"In this way, we also make our contribution to supporting society by ensuring that the situation that prevailed at the start of the corona pandemic will never happen again. In this way, we develop and manufacture machines for manufacturing in the western world Surgical masks no longer have to depend on individual production countries and complete bottlenecks, as was the case in March and April, "said Eichhorn.
