Q Sofas, a company located in Humanes de Madrid, and directed by two brothers from Fuenlabrada, Luis and Alfonso Santiago, has begun to manufacture limitdisposable for hospitals. In just over three days they have already been about 300 that they will distribute between the hospitals of Fuenlabrada and Móstoles, although they have also been requested from Leganés, Getafe and a nursing home from Leganense. The robes the maketheyentirely, but in order to do the masks They have sought the collaboration disinterested in another companytextiles and a tallerofseam, also from the city. After an appeal from the City Council, other companies will soon begin to collaborate with them to make a production chain and get more material for toilets. This is what one of the workers, Conchi Fernández, tells us, who highlights the collaboration and good disposition of the Consistory throughout this process, which has begun to move so quickly.
Listen Conchi Fernández, Q Sofás worker, explains the making of gowns in Play SER
The majority of Q Sofás employees are from Fuenlabrada. Until the State of Alarm was decreed for the coronavirus, it was dedicated to doing sofascustom, but last Friday, Luis told his workers that they could not overlook the fact that the toilets had to protect themselves with garbage bags and did not have masks to face the epidemic. Said and done. That same day, they appeared at the hospitalofFuenlabrada, collected samples of disposable masks and gowns, the latter the ones most needed, and began search forfabrics to make them. They contacted a providerofTorrejónofArdoz who opened the ship for them and supplied them with the material they needed. That same afternoon they began to make disposable gowns.
“When we went to the Fuenlabrada hospital they showed us two models of gowns, one sterilized, which we cannot make, and the other made of such flimsy material that when you pushed a little with your finger it broke.” The material that this company uses is TNT, screenwithoutto knit white, with a importantresistance. “When they saw the prototype that we brought them, in the hospital, they told us that it was of very good quality and it was a shame to use that fabric for single use, that we would look for something lower, but this fabric will protect them much better”, Conchi proudly assures.
The disposable gowns are made entirely in your company. “We have upholstery machines that can be to adaptatextiles”. They digitized the pattern of the gown that the hospital gave them as an example, they produced the final pattern that is then put into a computer, which in turn, sends it to the cutting machine. Then it is made with the sewing machine, explains Conchi. However, they nocoulddomasks because “the fabric we have achieved is very fine and cannot be cut by our machines” and that is where solidarity came into play again. Following an appeal, acompany Fuenlabreña offered to performhecut Y LauraMartin, designer of the city and Beatriz, from NewStyleDecorThey help them sew the masks and also some disposable gowns.
The success and speed with which everything has been put into operation has been such that after a callof thetown hall so that more businesses will join the initiative, there are already textile companies in the city that will collaborate by creating a chain that will increase production. At the moment, they already have 300limitdisposable waiting for this Tuesday the Consistory send boxes and bags for pack them. If so, they will leave immediately for the Fuenlabrada and Móstoles hospitals. “We will do everything we can,” says Conchi, who acknowledges that what is happening “isgratifying, the power to help, because it cannot be that those who heal us and take care of us are without protection ”.
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