It’s been one of these for months companies related to kalelon with more sales. In May 2020, in the middle of the first wave of covid and when the whole country was lining up in pharmacies to buy masks because no one in Spain was producing masks, six young entrepreneurs decided to pool their savings, buy a machine and start producing masks. Mask from Castelló A hitherto unknown type of face mask: an FFP2 with 99.9% bacterial efficiency. Thus, Airnatech Antiviral was born, producing 19 million units per month in record time and employing almost 200 people. Now, almost six months after the WHO announced the end of the health emergency, the company has decided to close its doors and file for voluntary bankruptcy because it cannot pay its debts.
The Official State Gazette (BOE) published the competition entry and emails of the Castelló-based mask company.I am announcing to creditors that they have one month to submit their requests to the bankruptcy administration.
Although the competition was accepted by the jury in mid-October, Airnatech, which exports its masks all over the world, had almost zero activity for several months. The end of mandatory face masks caused orders to plummet, and although the company tried to reinvent itself and open new lines of business, it eventually pulled down the curtain and laid off staff. Of course, as this newspaper has learned from sources close to the management, the company had up-to-date information on payments to workers before filing for bankruptcy.
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At the beginning of this year, Airnatech decided to reorient its operations and focus on a line of masks for pharmacies under the Imask brand. It has also launched five nutritional supplements and vitamin products that it aims to offset the decline in demand for face masks. and keeping things going. However, the efforts of the company owners were not enough to keep the company afloat and Chinese competition didn’t help either. The company, like most national companies, failed to enter public tenders, even though it was impossible to compete with foreign products on price.
Airnatech is now history, and it is not the only Spanish company focusing on mask production to close down. Actually, It is estimated that more than 95 percent of the producers have disappeared.