• In Strasbourg, a cinema, L'Odyssée, has been equipped with air purifiers for its reopening on May 19.

  • “For us, the top priority was to contribute to the safety of the public and our staff.

    Knowing that contagiousness is mainly caused by aerosols in the air, purifiers appeared essential to us.

    We looked for them before finding them in a company, ”explains the director of the place, Faruk Gunaltay.

  • “The principle is simple.

    It's a tower with a fan for mixing and sucking as well as two filters, ”adds a technical sales representative from Trotec, the German company that produces these devices.

The program is ready at the L'Odyssée cinema in Strasbourg.

On May 19, it will be

Bernard and Bianca

,

The Little Prince

and finally

Man Hunting

, by Fritz Lang, in the evening.

This is how the famous establishment in the Alsatian capital intends to celebrate this long-awaited reopening after 299 days in complete darkness.

Faruk Gunaltay, the director and programmer of the place, does not hide his haste.

Especially since he hopes to reassure future spectators with new equipment: air purifiers.

It's hard to miss the five arranged in the large theatrical hall.

"Here viruses and aerosols in the air are filtered" is written on these big black machines (1.30 m high by 61 cm wide).

"We are the first venue to equip ourselves in this way," he told

20 Minutes

before justifying the choice made.

“For us, the top priority was to contribute to the health safety of the public and our staff.

Knowing that contagiousness is mainly caused by aerosols in the air, purifiers appeared essential to us.

We looked for them before finding them in an Alsatian company.

"

"A filtration capacity of 99.995%"

Trotec is precisely a German company, established "for twenty-five to thirty years in the region", details Hugo Griess. The technical salesperson does not fail to praise the products of his brand. “The principle is simple. It is a tower with a fan for mixing and sucking as well as two filters. A first for coarse dust and the second, a HEPA H14. With it, we have a filtration capacity of 99.995%. This means that out of 100,000 particles the size of a virus, only 5. The air in a room is recirculated every ten minutes. In Germany, almost three-quarters of schools are already equipped. In France, we are starting to have a lot of requests. "

Including that of a Strasbourg restaurant, La Victoire, and therefore of the Odyssey, where seven devices, all on wheels, were purchased for an investment of 25,400 euros.

But are they loud?

“The very light wind tunnel cannot be heard during the projections.

It is a soft poetic whisper that reassures ”, romance Faruk Gunaltay.

“It goes from 33 decibels to 62 decibels”, adds Hugo Griess, specifying that the filter is “thermally decontaminated at night, which destroys the particles and increases its life.

"

“All this will not prevent that we will have to wear the mask, use the hydroalcoholic gel and respect the safety distances,” concludes Faruk Gunaltay before returning to his occupations.

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