Textile body develops high quality cloth to make ‘N-99’ masks, Retail News, ET Retail
AHMEDABAD: The Ahmedabad Textile Industrys Investigate Association (ATIRA) in collaboration with the Defence Investigate and Development Organisation has generated a substantial high-quality fabric to make masks of 99 per cent filter performance, the best among all variety of masks accessible in the country.
ATIRA is producing the fabric materials for preparing of five lakh ‘N-99 masks’, which it says would be superior in high-quality than the N-ninety five masks that have been in large desire of late in the battle against coronavirus.
Whilst the N-ninety five respirator is equipped to filter ninety five per cent of the incredibly small airborne particles, the performance of the N-99 mask to filter this sort of particles will be 99 per cent.
The Ahmedabad-based textile investigate affiliation promises it is the only facility in the country to deliver filter fabric for N-99 masks.
“Ninty nine per cent filtration is the best among all sorts of masks accessible in India. There were being a lot of difficulties originally, but with the untiring endeavours of our hugely proficient scientists and investigate specialists, we were being equipped to effectively acquire this fabric and deliver it on large scale, ATIRA director Pragnesh Shah explained to PTI.
The N-99 mask has five layers out of which two are of nano mesh which are inside and a few outer layers are of fabric, he mentioned.
“Currently, the filter fabric is made at a condition-of-the-art facility of ATIRA as per the WHO recommendations. The Authorities of India and the Defence Investigate and Development Organisation (DRDO) have recognised the performance of these masks, Shah mentioned.
The substantial high-quality fabric for about three.five lakh masks has by now been handed about to DRDO, while output of extra this sort of materials is likely on, mentioned ATIRA deputy director Deepali Palawat, who is heading the task.
“This task is the finest example of collaboration and coordination with the governing administration. It was hard to procure raw products in the course of the lockdown. The governing administration has moved mountains to assistance us procure the raw products and offered full assist in the course of the lockdown,” she mentioned.
Palawat mentioned it was hard to transform the investigate centre into a output unit but a 15-member ATIRA personnel, including scientific officers and specialists, are doing the job spherical-the-clock to fulfil DRDO’s get of five lakh masks.
“The DRDO is finding these masks prepared for health and fitness ministry officials, doctors of the All India Institute of Healthcare Sciences (AIIMS) and prime defence cadre, she mentioned.
“We are delighted that we are equipped to assistance the Indian governing administration and men and women in the course of this sort of unprecedented moments. Our partnership with DRDO has yielded something noteworthy for the country,” ATIRA council member Punit Lalbhai mentioned.
ATIRA is a renowned human body set up right here in 1947 by textile mills as an autonomous non-profit R&D establishment.
Its activities protect different areas, from fibre to completed fabrics in regular textiles as properly as technological textiles in the arena of geo-textiles, nano world wide web technology and composites, as per the association’s site.
