Team L&M
NEO TECH® has partnered with Swiss company HeiQ to power up its suiting and worsted fabrics with an intelligent textile technology – HeiQ Viroblock NPJ03. HeiQ creates some of the most effective, durable and high-performance textile effects in the market today, which lasts up to 30 washes. HeiQ Viroblock NPJ03 is among the first textile technologies in the world to be proven and certified effective against SARS-CoV-2. Tests conducted in Melbourne showed treated fabric achieved 99.99% reduction of the virus.
The research project involved a disinfection test protocol simulating real-life interaction of small aerosol droplets contaminating clothing with a known concentration of SARS-CoV-2 virus. The virus was contacted with the sample fabric for a few minutes followed by measurement of remaining infectious SARS-CoV-2 viruses. When the fabric sample was treated with HeiQ Viroblock NPJ03, no infective viruses left after a few minutes and the result indicated a SARS-CoV-2 virus reduction of 99.99% relative to the inoculum control.
