Brazil’s leading denim specilist VICUNHA has developed functional fabrics with antimicrobial, antiviral and repellent properties, and are capable of destroying the Coronavirus with 99.9% efficiency in just one minute of contact.
All will be revealed at the KingPins24 Amsterdam online trade show from 27 to 30 October 2020 when the Brazilian company will introduce their new V. Tech Protective fabric range.
Their new development of antiviral & antibacterial fabrics is said to be capable of mechanically destroying the wall of enveloped viruses, including SARS-CoV-2, responsible for COVID-19, with the help of Swiss company HeiQ Viroblock by CHT, combining the innovation of two technologies - the antimicrobial activity of silver salts and the technology of fat vesicles.
The V. Tech Protective collection has achieved effectiveness in inactivating viruses belonging to the Coronavirus group, according to tests carried out in the UNICAMP´s Virology laboratory, showing the imprresive result of inactivating 99.9% of the viruses in just one minute of contact.
The technology was conducted together with the Peter Doherty Institute of Infection and Immunity in Melbourne, Australia (Doherty Institute), and tests were conducted by Prof. Dra. Clarice Weis Arns, at Virology Laboratory, that is part Biology Institute in State University of Campinas-UNICAMP. Each fabric from Vicunha´s line were individually tested according to ISO 18148/2019 standard.
According to Vicunha in a statement, the company has been at the forefront of safeguarding the population's health, well-being and safety since the beginning of the pandemic in Brazil, including the creation of a fabric bank to support projects aimed at the production of masks and medical items for hospitals, the donation of 27,000 PPE items to the health departments of Ceará and Rio Grande do Norte and the reopening of its Sewing Room in order to produce 36,000 masks for employees, their families and communities.
The company also created the website "Together in the fight against coronavirus," an official channel for providing guidance, services, industry news and useful information about the pandemic for all audiences.
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