Talleres de Escoriaza, S.A.U. - Grupo Assa Abloy (TESA) - Door handles

The products TESA Bioproof apply to manillas, locks of control of accesses, pomos and bars antipánico. They are products of stainless steel that carry a coating in dust that does them resistant to the following microorganisms: Staphylococcus aureus, Escherichia coli, Pseudonomonas aeruginosa, Enterococcus hirae and Candida albicans.

It treats of an ideal range for collectivities and sectors like hospitals, residences geriátricas, schools and kindergartens, structures of catering, hotels, gymnasiums, houses and buildings with high traffic of people. In definite, places with constant presence of microorganisms, what can represent a grave problem for the maintenance of destined infrastructures to public or sanitary ware use and where the efficiency of the cleaning diminishes over time.The coatings of ions of silver, beside the zenolita, have tested like effective in front of several cepas microbial.

The active component of this coating are ‘ions of silver' covered of zeolite, whose function is to free the silver little by little. The properties of the silver like antimicrobic element are known from the antiquity when already the Chinese emperors used silver to warn poisonings (900 dC) or when the Egyptians used containers of silver to store water (79 dC) or in the years 20 of the past century, with million prescriptions of medicines containing silver.

Analysis carried out in the University of Pavía showed that to the 24 hours of the application of the antimicrobic coating, resulted deleted the cepas bactéricas previous, and 12 months afterwards, the can bactericida kept inalterado except a minimum exception on the Enteroccocus hirae where showed an efficiency of 99,5%.