Durst now making ‘community masks’

Durst has stared producing ‘community masks’ at its demo centre in Brixen, Italy. The company said know-how for the production of the masks will be made available to interested print service providers worldwide.

The first trance of masks - which have a three-layer structure and a filter membrane that can be disinfected with alcohol and reused - are for employees of Durst and sister company Alupress. After this production capacity will be available for other companies. "At the beginning of April, our printing technologies for the label and packaging industry were classified as systemically relevant and we were able to go back into partial operation," said Christoph Gamper, CEO and co-owner of Durst Group. "Now we will also use our textile printing and processing systems, which are located in the demo centre for customer demonstrations, for the production of community masks. In line with our pixel-to-output strategy, production takes place digitally and fully automatically - in a web shop with a specially programmed editor, the masks can be individualised with graphics, images, texts, and our workflow software then sends the designed file directly to the printing machine and then the printed material is processed by a cutting system. The announcement of our initiative on social media alone has generated great demand and print service providers worldwide are adapting our concept and thus Durst technology for their productions."