BAKU, Azerbaijan, June 6
By Tamilla Mammadova - Trend:
Georgian Medifari company has recently started operating and today produces about 100,000 high quality facemasks a day, and 3 million high quality, first-class medical facemasks per month, which it plans to export in the nearest future,Trend reports via the Ministry of Economy and Sustainable Development of Georgia.
The company has invested over 2 million lari ($677,966) in the enterprise.
The products of Medifari are already actively sold throughout Georgia. The company is currently in active negotiations on the export issues with Israel, Russia, Belgium, Austria, Italy and the United States.
The company currently employs more than 30 people.
“Georgia has managed to transform itself from an importing country into an exporting country in only three months, when the whole world was experiencing a shortage of facemasks,” Natia Turnava, the Minister of Economy and Sustainable Development, said during a visit to Medifari enterprise.
As Turnava said, today Georgia produces over 10 million high-quality facemasks per month.
"The success of this program, of course, was preconditioned by the Social Facemask Program launched by us, which was implemented by the state from the very first day of the epidemic and involved dozens of different garment factories, which currently employ hundreds of people,” Natia Turnava highlighted.
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