In times of rapid change, the reconversion of many companies is even more worthwhile than focusing entirely on dynamism. The coronavirus is pushing an entire industry to study and apply solutions that contribute to designing our social future. Not just shock economy, but also the desire to understand what new direction the planet can take.
An Italian company has adapted its fabrics, created to control crops, to many of the spaces in which we will try to reconstruct our everyday life. And the Arrigoni Spa, 160 employees, based in Como (and three factories, the main one in Putignano). Its agrotextile screens formed the basis for a new production. Today the company presented "Delimita", a project that includes the use of special technical fabrics as separators in parks, beaches, gyms and other open and closed spaces.
It's like putting a mask on a place
The principle is not dissimilar: textile screens reduce the risk of contagion by reducing the droplet effect, the passage of droplets of saliva or aerosols that can carry the coronavirus. The impact on the environments is different from that of plexiglass screens, because the fabric has a different ability to circulate air. They can be installed more easily and in a more versatile way, they are washable and sanitisable.
And apparently they also cost less than other solutions. 2 euros per square meter, the company says. How many will we find around in the next few months?
How the “textile shield” works Delimit
The experimental tests conducted so far by the company have highlighted a drastic reduction in droplets and the consequent limitation of contagion.
“Our protection behaves like an inertial filter, capable of almost completely reducing the passage of bacterial and viral vectors” he declares Paolo Arrigoni, president of Arrigoni Spa. “At the same time, Delimita creates a pleasant microclimate, protects against heat and wind and costs on average ten times less than plexiglass”.
