The new coatings from Nycote can help reduce spending of cleaning chemicals due to anti-micorbial features. (Picture: pounais24 – stock.adobe.com)
Airline cleaning and disinfecting costs post covid are exceptionally high. US based company Nycote aims to reduce those costs with a new antiviral and antimicrobial coatings solution.
The chart below shows estimates of past, current, and future spend of cleaning chemicals alone. These figures do not consider the cabin-cleaning crew spend. Mass transit, medical, and hospitality industries should incorporate new more permanent technologies to prevent the spread of viruses and bacteria if they want to decrease their costs, states Nycote. The main problem to date was finding an easy to apply product that could provide durable long-lasting protection.
The US company claims that its new products “Nysafe AV 700 & 900” are formulated from durable well-known high performance surface coatings approved by Boeing, Airbus, Embraer, and others to protect high value parts from service chemicals, corrosion, wear, and abrasion. Nysafe contains two elements that collectively and significantly reduce viral contamination load on all high-touch surfaces. The first is a known polymer that microbes cannot penetrate or grow on. The second is nanoparticle that is known for affecting and reducing viral load on surfaces. The product is safe for the humans and is a long-term solution proven and tested against viruses and bacteria.
