21/10/2021
ONE million masks a day will be made at a new Herefordshire factory, officially opened this week.
Ultrafilter Medical's factory in Ross-on-Wye is the brainchild of Dustin and Dean Kronsbein, who even welcomed TV presenter Richard Hammond to the opening ceremony.
The company now employs 67 people at the Herefordshire site, manufacturing the Ultramask, a Type IIR medical face mask currently being used in hospitals, care settings, the pharmaceutical, food and beverage industries across Europe and in the UK.
Ultrafilter Medical Chairman Dean Kronsbein said: “I wanted to help my country, it was a call of duty. We also wanted to create much-needed employment and career opportunities for local people here in Ross-on-Wye.”
As the Ultramask is manufactured in the UK, the company has a lower carbon footprint than imported masks from China and other overseas exporters. Furthermore it is producing one million masks a day and offering just-in-time deliveries, so that orders can be placed by healthcare organisations as and when they are needed.
ONE million masks a day will be made at a new Herefordshire factory, officially opened this week.Ultrafilter Medical's factory in Ross-on-Wye is the brainchi...
