TECHTEX launches an ambitious plan to protect the environment

The company wants to use a new business model in the textile industry by promoting the circular economy principles: the sustainable materials management, and the prudent, efficient, and rational usage of natural resources.

Techtex has already made its first investment towards that end by purchasing and commissioning a line for recycling post-industrial polypropylene and polyethylene waste. The line has a capacity of over 100 tons per month. Up to 100% of the resulting material can be used for the extrusion of new polypropylene products. This line will recycle both the waste generated by the group’s activity, as well as the post-consumer waste, from Techtex clients. The company is listed in the Registry of licensed economic operators that recover waste, which is maintained by the Ministry of Economy, Entrepreneurship and Tourism.

This is only the first step of our plan for protecting the environment. In the second phase, we intend to find a way to collect from the market all the (non-medical) protective equipment that TECHTEX sold. We want to convince our products’ beneficiaries to collect this type of waste and to return it for recycling purposes. We will discuss this matter with the national authorities and all the relevant environmental organizations, since textile waste recycling is an important project for Romania, and this effort should be supported and encouraged. I’d like to remind you of the European Parliament’s decision that makes it mandatory for all the European Union countries to have a system in place for the separate collection of textile waste before 2025. The European Commission’s new strategy also includes actions to support manufacturing processes and the circular economy, helps reduce dangerous chemicals, and helps consumers choose sustainable fabrics. The EU will have its own ecolabel, which manufacturers who meet the ecological criteria will be able to use for their products.” (Ioan Filip, President of TAPARO Group)

Techtex has the largest manufacturing capacity for masks and protective equipment in South-Eastern Europe

The company manufactures all the necessary components for the production of masks and protective equipment and is able to provide high quality fabrics and medical devices at fair prices. The company can successfully meet Romania’s needs on demand.

 “Currently, as a result of the partnerships we set up, we are exporting  75% of what we produce to Germany, France, Israel, Austria, and the United Kingdom. We’ve opened offices in Bucharest and Budapest, and we’ve made progress towards partnerships in the United States of America, where Techtex products are approved by the FDA. We invested in the most efficient technological lines in the world in the industry, and our manufacturing capacity is continuously growing. Presently, we can make 45 million surgical masks and 10 million FFP2 masks per month. By the end of March 2021, we will increase our FFP2 mask manufacturing capacity with another 15 million pieces per month.” (Ioan Filip, President of TAPARO Group)

Techtex products are tested in internationally accredited external laboratories

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Experience-based quality in Romania

TECHTEX was established in October 2017, and is built upon the extensive experience, the proficiency, and the investments of TAPARO Group, which the company is a part of, in the industry of nonwoven technical textiles. TECHTEX is the first Romanian company that produced masks and protective equipment, and the only manufacturer of filtering materials and nonwoven polypropylene fabrics in the country.

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A visit to remember at TECHTEX

Two months after the commencement of the production of safety masks, TECHTEX received a visit from the Romanian Government, at the highest level. Prime Minister Ludovic Orban, the Minister of Economy, Energy and Business Environment, Virgil Popescu, the Minister of National Defense, Nicolae Ciuca, and the Minister of Transport, Infrastructure and Communications, Lucian Bode, came to Maramureș to witness the production of safety masks and gear, to talk to the owners of the company, and to identify new ways to support Romanian manufacturing.

VVirgil Popescu, Minister of Economy, Energy and Business Environment:
“I visited the Techtex factory, of the Taparo Group, the first Romanian company to manufacture surgical masks and safety gear. With their help, we managed to solve some problematic situations when the pandemic crisis was at its peak in our country. I would like to thank them for finding solutions and coming up with concrete results. I would like to encourage all entrepreneurs in our country to “dare”, because they will receive our support. Romania has potential and together we can revitalize the economy.”

Ludovic Orban, Prime Minister of Romania:
“I have heard that here, in Târgu Lăpuș, very good masks are being made. Not only that, but they are also preparing to manufacture, for the first time in Romania, the filter layer of the surgical masks, the FFP2 masks – a filter layer providing the highest degree of protection. We have already seen where this capacity is going to be installed. It is very important that a Romanian company manage, in a very short time, to manufacture surgical masks, FFP2 masks and be ready to start manufacturing the much needed fabric, which is the basis for all health and safety gear: Masks, suits, scrubs, caps. We are here to encourage this company, which is taking very intrepid steps in an extremely important field.”

Ioan Filip, CEO of C.A. TAPARO:
“I believe that through the investment we made at TECHTEX, we contributed to the price decrease of safety masks and gear on the Romanian market. With the emergence of Romanian manufacturers, the importers were forced to lower prices. Our strategy and the business plan that we have substantiated and that has been supported and financed considers the manufacturing of all the layers necessary for the production of surgical and FFP2 masks, of the textile fabric for the production of all the safety gear involved. It is a much larger investment. Our goal was not to manufacture masks, but to secure production in terms of quantity, quality, and price.”

The representatives of the Romanian Government also went to Cicârlău, near Baia Mare, where, together with the owners of TECHTEX, they laid the cornerstone of the new factory to be built on an area of 19,000 sqm. The new unit will be completed in the last quarter of this year and will be the first medical textile factory with one hundred percent Romanian capital.