Company History & Achievements

  • 2004

    Thea-Tex™ Healthcare (India) Pvt Ltd incorporated on 30th April at Registrar of Companies, Mumbai, India.

  • 2005

    Imported and commissioned state of the art Taiwanese ultrasonic nonwoven converting machines for surgical masks, including the first bouffant cap and surgeon cap machines in India.

  • 2006

    • 1st capacity expansion from four machines to seven machines
    • Awarded ISO 9001 Certificate of Registration by the  British Standards Institute
  • 2007

    1st ultrasonic Ear Loop machine imported. (currently there are 12 ear loop machines and more than 35 machines in total)

  • 2008

    Participated in the first Medical Exhibition at Medical Fair, Mumbai, organized by Messe Dusseldorf

  • 2009

    Major capacity expansion due to H1N1 pandemic and major entry into export markets globally. Several machines imported during the crisis by Air shipment

  • 2010

    Imported the first Duck Bill mask making machine for producing N95 Particulate Respirators

  • 2011

    • Participated in Arab Health(Dubai/UAE), Hospitalar (Sao Paulo/Brazil), Medica (Dusseldorf/Germany) to announce the arrival of world class Indian manufacturer of nonwoven surgical masks etc.
    • Thea-Tex™ empanelled on the Meditech Research Advisory Committee at South India Textile Research Association (SITRA, Coimbatore), a Government approved Centre of Excellence for Medical Textiles.
    • Thea-Tex™ empanelled on the Technical Textiles for Meditech Applications Sectional Committee, TX36, at the Bureau of Indian Standards. Advisor for draft standard on Surgical Masks.
  • 2012

    • Started ultrasonic production of nonwoven shoe covers, PE shoe covers and PE shower caps.
  • 2013

    • Further capacity expansion to more than 1 million pieces per day or more than 30 Million pieces per month, making Thea-Tex™ the largest domestic mask producer.
    • Imported and commissioned India’s first surgical mask machine for children’s and ladies’ face masks, as well as developing cartoon masks.
    • Thea-Tex™ company name and in house Surgical Mask brand Filtra™ trademarked successfully.
  • 2014

    • Thea-Tex™ launches its in house e commerce site for selling pollution masks with activated carbon at www.filtramask.com
    • Thea-Tex™ ties up with www.amazon.in to sell the Filtra™ range of products directly to consumers such as doctor/dental clinics and bikers/commuters. Within the first 6 months the on line sales generated revenue of several hundred thousand USD per month, with exponential growth expected due to India’s explosion of the E Commerce industry.
    • Thea-Tex™ successfully allotted GS1 Company Prefix Number 890606277 for generating GTIN 13 barcodes for up to 1,000 different SKU’s.

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