“The mask is a product that has stood still”

From next Wednesday, the mask is no longer required in interiors by Hego Euskal Herria with exceptions such as health centers, social health centers and public transport.

The new regulations will be approved on Tuesday and will come into effect the following day.

Although the masks came from China at the start of the pandemic, they soon started making them in-house wolfratex from Bergara. The director has emphasized the company’s capacity for autonomy in the program amarauna by Euskadi Irrati

Iker ElizabethThe company’s president, has stated that the production capability they have shown in the face of a hypothetical pandemic in the future is “as interesting as it is important”.

Faced with such a situation, he believes it is essential to be “protected”, so “we must stay here”. It has thus opted for a local industry, “self-sufficient and independent”.

Over the past two years, the Larramendi industrial estate company has produced nearly 90 million units, at more than 200 masks per minute.

Elizburu explains that “in the beginning we worked non-stop with five relays for 365 days”. Now it is enough for them to work one or two shifts: “In the end we had to achieve flexibility in production.”

In a context where the use of the mask could decrease significantly, he confirms that it will not disappear overnight, as “people with the mask have acquired a point of safety, for example against colds or flu”.

For all these reasons, the director of Wolfratex believes that it is a product that “has come to stay” and which we will continue to find “on the shelves of supermarkets and pharmacies”.

So it ensures that the production of masks ensures that they work, adapting to the situation at all times.