Ahlstrom-Munksjö expands the production of filtration media for 500 million surgical face masks in 2020 at its Turin plant in Italy
AHLSTROM-MUNKSJÖ OYJ PRESS RELEASE April 27, 2020 at 17:00 EEST Ahlstrom-Munksjö continues to develop its capacity in Turin to meet the demand for high performance filtration media for surgical face masks in Italy. After having received its first orders in March, the Turin plant has managed to expand capacity through line improvements and production optimization and is now planning to produce face mask material equivalent to over 60 million surgical face masks per month. For the remainder of 2020, this adds up to a total of 500 million face masks. The initial target was to produce