Atimbe has an antimicrobial "everything in the coating"

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WB Coatings has enhanced its user-friendly Durotect textured coatings with a medical-technical added benefit: Atimbe is the name of the new two-component system that provides functional surfaces for examination and treatment devices in highly hygienic areas. Its antimicrobial effect lasts up to ten years thanks to silver particles embedded in a glass matrix, rather than controversial nanosilver or free silver ions. With this durable and highly economical coating, both textured or pearlescent structures and completely smooth surfaces can be created.

Just as functional food offers consumers additional benefits when consuming food and delicacies, there are also a range of surface coatings for devices, tools, or aids for private or commercial use that provide users with additional benefits. Until now, these have mostly been physical effects related to resistance, handling ease, or cleanliness. WB Coatings now introduces an equally efficient and health-safe coating system that imparts antimicrobial properties to examination and treatment devices in medical-technical fields. Because without the addition of nanosilver or free silver ions, Atimbe demonstrably reduces 99.9999 percent of all germs on surfaces. This innovative system's effect is also based on silver particles, which are embedded in an approved glass matrix and actively repel bacteria, yeasts, fungi, and mold for up to ten years. For example, Escherichia coli and Staphylococcus aureus can be eliminated with a logarithmic reduction of 5.9.

In addition to meeting the highest hygienic safety standards, the coating is also suitable for achieving high design demands: while Atimbe in the Pur Plus version gives surfaces a textured or pearlescent finish, Atimbe Pur A can also produce completely smooth layers. Furthermore, different gloss levels can be achieved with just one base coat and appropriate components (such as matting agents, gloss additives, etc.). This eliminates the need for logistically complex storage of various base coats. All standardized, normed, and individually defined color variants are also possible in terms of coloring.

Thanks to its high solids content with low solvent proportion, the newcomer is also very economical and ideal for quick single- or, depending on the structure, two-layer builds with all modern spray or airless equipment. No sanding or filling work on the substrate is necessary beforehand. Once air-dried or heat-cured, its low abrasion tendency, UV resistance, and disinfectant resistance give the coated devices additional competitive advantages. From a medical-hygienic perspective, the coating can also demonstrably score points: it is certified, among other things, for its antimicrobial effect, sweat and saliva resistance, and safety regarding food contact and cytotoxicity (cell damage).