Mogul introduces smart fabric to filter bacteria

TURKEY-BASED textile company Mogul announced a new product to be used in protective equipment and masks. The company, creating solutions for various sectors with innovative fabrics that are focused on performance, created a new microfilament fabric that can filter out 99.9 percent of bacteria.

The company has been creating fabrics with seven different non-woven technologies in the company’s Gaziantep and Luleburgaz factories. Since day one, Mogul focused on products that would differentiate Turkey from others, according to Serkan Gogus, CE• of Mogul.

The company became the first in Turkey and the second in the world that produces through hybrid technology after a $75 million investment in the Luleburgaz factory, Gogus said.

According to Gogus, Mogul became an important global actor with its most recent innovations. With a high-tech infrastructure and wide product range, the company made various innovations in technical textiles. As a result of limited melt blown fabric production following the outbreak, the company focused on alternative products.

“After three months of cooperation with mask producers, we succeeded in filtering bacteria by 99.9 percent in three-layer medical masks and achieving the FFP2 level in five-layer dust masks with microfilament fabric, which is placed between one microfilament mask and two spunbond layers,” Gogus said. The company provides a significant alternative fabric capacity when there’s a global melt blown capacity shortage.