Berry Global Group, Inc. make public about the collaboration with Medicom Group, world’s leading manufacturers for respiratory and medical masks, to design and produce nonwoven fabric in producing masks. Berry will design the manufacturing solutions and ensuring supply nonwoven for hundreds of millions face masks as part of Medicom and British government agreement.
To support Medicom, Berry is investing in a new state-of-the-art line in melt-blown nonwoven production, to equipped with the proprietary charging technology at one of Berry’s UK facilities, as a way to increase capacity in the production of type IIR and N99-equivalent FFP3 masks with Europan standard. The produced mask will be sold under Kolmi brand, Medicom’s European brand.
The investment has enabled by the British government through a long-term contractual commitment to support Medicom’s UK-based production facility scheduled to open in the late summer. This also put the light of government focus in ensuring steady supply of personal protective equipment to the local market. Berry’s list of partnerships is growing to expand the capacity of protective materials and also adding certainty to crucial PPE supply chains.
