{"id":37440,"date":"2020-04-16T17:19:02","date_gmt":"2020-04-16T11:49:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/allgujaratnews.in\/?p=37440"},"modified":"2020-04-16T17:23:26","modified_gmt":"2020-04-16T11:53:26","slug":"gujarats-atira-made-the-first-n99-mask-cloth-in-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/allgujaratnews.in\/en\/gujarats-atira-made-the-first-n99-mask-cloth-in-india\/","title":{"rendered":"Gujarat&#8217;s Atira made the first N99 mask cloth in India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>- Umang Barot<br \/>\nAhmedabad, 16 April 2020<br \/>\nATIRA-Textile Research Institute, located at IIM in Ahmedabad, is the only Indian institution to manufacture a N99 mask filter material.<br \/>\nThe polyamide-6 type is used in the production of nylon filters. The granules for this were urgently needed to be brought from Germany. The 4 ton granules were transported to India by passenger plane in collaboration with the Aviation Ministry and the Ministry of External Affairs of the Government of India. A German private company provided free raw material to Atira in this humanitarian work.<br \/>\nAtira&#8217;s Nanotechnology department employs about 15 people, including Scientific Officer, Researcher, Production Unit.<br \/>\nThe filtration capacity of the N95 mask is 95%. All particles (particulate matter) larger than 0.3 micron can filter the N95 mask with a capacity of 95%. While the filtration capacity of the N99 mask is about 100%.<br \/>\nAttira has given the DRDO as much cloth as 3.85 lakh N99 masks. The total order is 5 lakh masks. The latest Nano Electro Spinning Machine has been purchased in the Nano section of Atira with the financial support of the State Government&#8217;s Industry Commissioner&#8217;s Office.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8211; Umang Barot Ahmedabad, 16 April 2020 ATIRA-Textile Research Institute, located at IIM in Ahmedabad, is the only Indian institution to manufacture a N99 mask filter material. The polyamide-6 type is used in the production of nylon filters. The granules for this were urgently needed to be brought from Germany. The 4 ton granules were [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[4763,54,10,4368,4759,24,6387],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paUKPQ-9JS","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/allgujaratnews.in\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37440"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/allgujaratnews.in\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/allgujaratnews.in\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allgujaratnews.in\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allgujaratnews.in\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37440"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/allgujaratnews.in\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37440\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37444,"href":"https:\/\/allgujaratnews.in\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37440\/revisions\/37444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/allgujaratnews.in\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allgujaratnews.in\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allgujaratnews.in\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}