ADVATEX – the smart way to a safe environment

When the world around us is becoming smarter day by day, it is no wonder that clothing becomes too. Well, lots of innovations have occurred in the textile industry with many brands bringing out their own unique discoveries and features that help make life easier and safer while providing the best of comfort. The need for innovation in workplace apparel has resulted in the advent of a new type of clothing: ADVATEX. Let us meet this innovation from Biz Corporates, that marks the beginning of a new era in infection control.

ADVATEX range of clothing has been designed specifically for those who are engaged in the Healthcare and Aged Care environments. This idea was born out when they realized that despite working hard to control infections, hospitals and healthcare personnel, all over the world, struggle to control infection rates within their own facilities. ADVATEX helps in limiting the spread of bacteria from caregiver to patient via their workplace apparel.

The technology behind ADVATEX was developed from the long-proven fact that the element silver has a bacteriostatic effect. The anti-microbial effect of the natural element silver is exclusively based on free silver ions. By the ‘triple effect’ mechanism, silver ions with a positive charge bring in their bacteriostatic effects. To create ADVATEX, the element Silver is converted into a Silver Compound, and then the highly efficient, microscopic compound is applied to our textiles via a unique coating procedure.

Each ADVATEX garment has been tested for 8 types of bacteria, which are:

• Staphylococcus aureus
• Methicillin Resistant - Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA)
• Escherichia coli (E-coli)
• Klebsiella pneumonia
• Listeria moncytogenes
• Enterobacter aerogenes
• Pseudomonas aeruginosa
• Corynebacterium xerosis

When any of these nominated bacteria would find itself on an ADVATEX garment, it was found out to perish up to 80-99% of the times. The ADVATEX fabric coating is not only able to resist bacteria, but also to actively eliminate it.

As ADVATEX has been brought out after ensuring its safety standards, you can be sure that it is absolutely safe for your skin. Cytotoxicity test has shown that silver ion technology has no influence on the natural balance of the skin and that the fresh effect develops in the textile, leaving your skin unaffected and fully functional. The active silver ingredient cannot be washed or dry cleaned out of the textile so there won’t be an issue of the apparel’s anti-bacterial effect wearing off.