The first time Matthias Massopust saw a washer-disinfector for cleaning BA masks and respiratory protection equipment washer at an information day held by Dräger in 2014:
He submitted an application to the municipality's fire service budget which was approved by both the treasurer and the municipal council, "largely because we explained how unhealthy it is to work with the chemicals in a dip tank when you clean masks manually," Massopust recalls. Since the adjacent town of Allersberg just 10 kilometres away was facing the same problem, they clubbed together to buy two machines at a discount: "That made it even easier on the town's budget. Otherwise we would have had to install an extraction system and continued with the totally ineffective manual method of cleaning our 65 masks which are in active use and our 40 regulators," says Massopust.
