South Asia Textiles, a leading Sri Lankan textile manufacturer and HeiQ Materials AG, a Swiss -ased global leader in textile innovation are collaborating to produce a specially treated fabric to be used for masks exported to the US. South Asia Textiles, a subsidiary of Ambeon Holdings PLC, specializes in knitting, dyeing, finishing, printing, brushing, sueding and preshrunk fabric for leading global brands such as Victoria Secret, Next, Marks & Spencer, Tesco, Calvin Klein, Decathlon and Adidas. On the hand, HeiQ specializes in research, manufacturing and marketing of high-quality, high-performance textile finishing.
The Swiss-based material science organization’s latest innovation, HeiQ Viroblock is an antimicrobial / antibacterial / antiviral textile technology specially engineered to work against enveloped viruses, such as influenza viruses and human coronaviruses.. Fabrics treated with HeiQ Viroblock treated fabrics show over 99.99 per cent reduction in SARS-CoV-2 viruses after 30 minutes. In the case of Sendai viruses, over 99.2 per cent viruses are deactivated within two minutes based on modified ISO 20743 method.
