Spanish Upholstery, Furniture and Home Textile Firms Change up Production to Fight Coronavirus

Solidarity, a collective spirit and unity against the Coronavirus. These are some of the hallmarks of Spanish society’s fight against this global pandemic. And in this fight, Spanish companies from the home décor sector are also on the front lines.

This is the case with a number of companies from the upholstery, furniture and home textile sectors, which have come together to help stop the virus. As far as they are able, they are dedicating their human and mechanical resources to this fight, despite many of them facing problems of survival in the future.

The companies have changed their manufacturing lines and set their employees to work in the spirit of solidarity on producing masks, mattresses and other medical supplies. Among them, some stand out above the others, such as the joint project carried out by a group of businesses from the upholstery sector in the town of Yecla, Murcia.

Brands such as Acomodel Tapizados, Tecninova, Pedro Ortiz Tapizados, Fama Tapizados and Gomarco Colchones have joined forces to produce up to 1,000 protective masks a day altruistically, using their employees, their own resources or their sewing machines. Some of them, like Mayor Tapizados, have even been visited by paratroopers from the base in Alcantarilla who wanted to learn how to make masks for the Air Force.

Beyond the region of Murcia, Ávila-based company Nagami Design has begun manufacturing protective face shields against COVID-19 using their 3D printers. They say they are producing some 500 COVID-19 protective face shields each day. The 3D printing technique is also being used by furniture companies, such as Enea Design or Ondarreta in the Basque Country and Resol Group in Girona, where they are making protective face screens and visors for healthcare workers.

The company Moradillo Sofás is also undertaking a project in the hardest-hit area of Spain: the capital. This Madrid-based company has changed its production to manufacture mattresses for the Fuenlabrada Hospital.

Like that one, there are other important local initiatives, such as the outdoor furniture company Point 1920, which has assigned all its available resources to the creation of protective masks in Gata de Gorgos, in the province of Alicante, or Euroseating, in La Rioja, which is producing medical aprons for the San Pedro Hospital and other area healthcare centers, and the firm SP. Berner that will manufacture 50.000 masks monthly.

Other firms from the textile sector are also committed to the current crisis. In just two days, Manterol has supplied 2,000 blankets for the IFEMA Field Hospital, in Madrid, while Cotopur, Creaciones Euromoda and Funcotex are producing medical face masks for the regional government of Valencia. Aquaclean Group company Interfabrics expects to join the efforts soon with the production of a new version of the surgical mask. Aitex is also involved in getting the mask approved.

These are just a few examples of sector companies that are going out of their way altruistically to give their all to overcome this crisis as soon as possible.