The days of the virus - Three shifts over 24 hours to guarantee beds for hospitals

The days of the virus - Three shifts over 24 hours to guarantee beds for hospitals

Tecnotubi from Concordia is producing 150 beds every week and will reach 800 by the end of April. The owner: “We are organising the company to guarantee maximum productivity”

Concordia - There are many companies in and around Portogruaro that, despite this economic and health emergency due to the spread of the coronavirus, have seen their activities grow.

Some, like Portoflex in Cinto Caomaggiore or Blu Service in Caorle, have converted their production, from the manufacture of mattress protectors and mattresses to face masks, personal protective equipment that are currently so difficult to find on the market and others, instead, are dealing with a spike in orders for medical equipment. This is the case of Tecnotubi from Concordia Sagittaria. The company, specialised in the design and manufacture of light alloy frames, is managing a huge order for hospital bed frames.

Founded in 1988 by Giovanni Pauletto, the company is now managed by his son, Gianfranco. Operating in diverse sectors, from design furniture to the naval one, for 15 years the company has also been producing stainless steel and aluminium roll-in stretchers for emergency rooms. "Around two years ago - explains the owner - we started to work alongside the Favero Health Project in Montebelluna (TV) to make hospital beds. In 2019 we made 600 beds. In this moment of great emergency due to the coronavirus, we are manufacturing 150 beds a week and the aim is to reach 800 by the end of April. In these complex times we have been fortunate to have a number of suppliers who are helping us: Deanna in Pordenone, Aussafer in Udine, Sigma in Vicenza, Tornitecnica in Treviso and CDF Verniciatura in Treviso. It’s also thanks to them that we can fulfil this huge order”.

With its 30 employees Tecnotubi works in a 3 thousand square metre plant in via Zulian. In these days, the workers have been divided into two shifts to guarantee maximum productivity both of the plant for the laser cutting of tubes and profiles and of the robotic islands.

Organisation - "We are organising the work day by day but next Monday - continues the owner - we will start working in three shifts over 24 hours. The other lines of production, except for some orders for emergency rooms, have been suspended. Like other businesspeople, - concluded Pauletto - I am living a conflict: on the one hand, the obligation to call the company’s employees back to work and, on the other hand, the moral duty to make the products that are so essential at this specific time".

Great attention is paid to the safety of the people engaged in the work, as established in the protocol signed recently by the social parties and the government.

"To protect the workers - concluded the owner - we are taking all the precautions established to contain the spread of the virus, including the sanitation of the plant. On Saturday evening it will be sanitised again, after the first deep clean last week”.

Teresa Infanti