Reusable Protective face shields and safety screens

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  Reusable Protective Face Shield Model 2

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  ISO Certificate

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  Reusable Protective Face Shield Komfort

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  Reusable Protective Face Shield Komfort 2.0

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  Short description of models (1)

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  Short description of models (2)

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  Variety of color for model Komfor and Komfort 2.0

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  Safety screen

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  CNC cutting

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  Cutted sheet

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  Collecting the cutted parts

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  Cleaning the parts

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  Assembling

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  Ready to send

Inspiration

Our team consist of experienced designers and engineers ready to deal with another challenge. We are coming from two advertising production agencies - Expressprint in Varna (Bulgaria) and Tipex in Cluj Napoca (Romania). We joined forces for this hackathon thanks to the strategic part-nership between the two cities in the framework of The EU StartUpCities Network which link the business, innovation skills and creativity in second sized cities in EU. As advertising production agencies we dispose with large range professional cutting and printing machines. With the upcom-ing of Coronavirus crisis it was impossible not to get involved and contribute to the common good. Our idea for a “one piece easy to produce and multi use face shield” was born and realised within 48 hours as a response to the need of protection for the people during the coronavirus out-break and as an alternative for the single use mouth masks. In one day we developed the design, identified the materials and on the second day we reorganised our production cycle so we could make the first face protective shields. Then we contacted the local police, public services, health and social workers, volunteers, and everybody on the front line in order to offer them suitable pro-tection. They encounter with many people daily and the face helmets provides them with much larger protection than mouth mask only. All the models are designed by our own staff. We have the technical capacity and the needed people skills to do the hole process – from the idea to the final product in a very short time. Not only we safe lives. We are Resilient. We adapted very fast to this disruptive situation so we as employers had a chance to stay strong in the economically disbal-anced environment and safe the wellbeing of our employees, and their families. The State and EU institutions will have less need to compensate with the social costs of bankruptcy and lose of jobs.

What it does

As COVID19 is spread by air, the most vulnerable parts are the mouth, the nose and the eyes. The face shield covers the whole face (mouth, nose and eyes) and protects from possible contamina-tion. It is practical as it is fixed on the forehead and allows the wearing of dioptric glasses and mouth mask. It is reusable, easy to clean and disinfect and produced from durable material. The face shield has the following technical specifications:

• Light conductivity over 90%;
• High impact and fracture resistance;
• High level of resistance of the material;
• High material density - (ISO 1183) 1.27 g / cc .;
• Very good chemical resistance;
• 100% recyclable;
• Resistant to gamma rays;
• Universal size;
• Possibility of using with optical googles;
• Possibility of using with a medical month mask;
• Easy to wear;
• Easy to clean and disinfect;
• 90 degree rotation.

We also produce safety screens that are mounted hanging from the ceiling or standing on the coun-ter in shops, banks, administrative institutions and other public places. They represent a shield be-tween the customer and the desk officer/shopkeeper/assistant and prevent from contamination by ear. They are produced from different materials such as polycarbonate, plexiglass end other.

How I built it

We upgraded a basic face shield design from fire-workers helmet to a lightweight easy to wear gear. Then we identified the suitable materials for the purpose. Last we reorganised the existing printing and cutting machines, as well as our staff and we started the production. Using our full ca-pacity we were able to create the end product in a relatively short time. We can produce up to 350 shields per hour in each of our companies. That means one shield is produced for 5 seconds. In comparison - the 3D printed versions takes about 1.5 hour to produce one face shield. The technol-ogy we use rends the product much cheaper and quickly available in big quantities. This is very important when one has to reply to the pressing need in the situation with the COVID-19. The mate-rials are widely available and therefore there is no peril that they will become scarce and jeopardise the production of the needed quantities. The face shield can withstand a temperature up to 100 C and can be cleaned and disinfected without limitation to number of uses. For this operation we didn’t put great financial investments. We just had the creative idea, the need-ed technology and skills and the quick responsiveness. Once the need for face shields and related products is over we can go back to our normal advertising printing business at no transition costs.

Challenges I ran into

In order to be able to produce all the ordered products in the short term we used the full capacity of the company. All production was directed solely to protective products. Another challenge was the time when we run out of the basic material we used. Our supplier could not be able to deliver the same material at that moment. Quickly we identified a substitute with similar in characteristics ma-terial. Our current challenge is to increase our outreach and let more people know those products exists. So far we were able to supply the people in front line in our home town Varna and Cluj and some other places in Bulgaria and Romania. But since the product is comparatively cheap and we can produce big quantities in short time we can deliver it everywhere in Europe.

Accomplishments that I'm proud of

We are proud of the fact that we can react on time and have been able to provide relatively quick protective equipment to the most needy - those in the front line. We are also very proud to form a cross border team of like minded professionals and show that this type of “strategic partnership” , initiated by EU incentive works for real.

What I learned

This was our first time to produce a product for health and protection but we felt obliged to contrib-ute to this situation. And we also learned how to hack :) thanks to #EUvsVirus

What's next for Reusable Protective face shields

We want to make our product more easily accessible not only in our city or country, but also in whole of Europe and beyond. And we also want to establish a program for recycling the used hel-mets so the materials can be utilised again.

Built With

• capsules-and-elastic-cloth-strings-?-with-different-combinations-for-each-model.-the-basic-material-we-use-for-face-shields-is-pet-g-and-for-safety-screen-we-use-only-polycarbonate
• cnc-cutter
• corelldraw
• die-cutting-machines.-we-have-different-models-of-face-shields-which-are-with-soft-elastic-forehead-band
• die-machines
• elastic-cloth-strings
• laser-cutter
• petg
• polycarbonate
• sew-machines
• sewing-machines
• soft-elastic-forehead-band