The COVID-19 pandemic created a boom in hygiene products, which HeiQ supported with its proprietary HeiQ Viroblock technology. Now that the pandemic is receding, the market has returned to its focus on sustainable hygiene products. To complement HeiQ’s existing offering of botanical antimicrobials and probiotic cleaners, HeiQ now also invests further in nature’s own ready-to-use hygiene materials: copper and silver.
Due to European Union regulatory changes phasing out several high-volume synthetic biocides, such as zinc pyrithione, silver nitrate, and silver chloride, the market expects strong growth in the use of the safe and effective antimicrobials copper and silver, which are used in coatings, plastics, textiles, and water purification. With the acquisition of Tarn-Pure, HeiQ positions itself as the key supplier of copper and silver to the wider hygiene industry.
HeiQ’s EVP Tom Ellefsen said: “The HeiQ Group already has Europe’s most sustainable offering of hygiene technologies featuring probiotic cleaners, botanical antimicrobials, and bio-based biocides. With the addition of Tarn-Pure’s intellectual property for metallic copper and metallic silver, HeiQ becomes the industry’s go-to supplier for sustainable hygiene technologies. We look forward to bringing all of these products to our customers in the New Year."
Founded in 2005 as a spin-off from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH) and listed on the London Stock Exchange Main Market (XLON:HEIQ), HeiQ is a leader in textile and materials innovation creating some of the most effective, durable and high-performance technologies on the market today. HeiQ strives to improve the lives of billions of people through pioneering textiles and materials innovation. Combining three areas of expertise – scientific research, specialty materials manufacturing, and consumer ingredient branding – HeiQ is the ideal innovation partner to create differentiating and sustainable products and capture the added value at the point of sale. With its 14 offices, 7 manufacturing sites, and 7 R&D hubs, HeiQ today employs 240 professionals. It has a total capacity of 45’000 tons of specialty chemicals per year and serves over 1’000 industrial customers in over 60 countries. Today, HeiQ’s consumer goods and medical devices can be found in 56 countries. For more information, visit www.heiq.com
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