“It’s a plug-and-play technology that can be used to add antiviral properties to any surgical or N95 mask,” MedCu CEO and cofounder Danny Lustiger tells ISRAEL21c. “Studies show that 99.99 percent of the viruses that came in contact with our mask were destroyed in only 30 minutes,” said MedCu microbiologist Gadi Borochov.įacemask manufacturers can use MedCu’s copper-treated polypropylene fabric, made in Israel and elsewhere, as a replacement for the inner and outer layers of their products.
The self-sterilizing, viral-deactivating facemask technology will also be marketed to other countries. Now, MedCu has signed a contract with Chinese Ministry of Health subsidiary Shanghai Medical Technology to manufacture and distribute copper-embedded facemasks.įacemasks with outer and inner layers embedded with antimicrobial copper oxide. Sonovia was one of two Israeli companies (the other is CLEW) on Startus Insights’ list of the world’s top five impacting startups in the COVID-19 pandemic.Īs for Argaman, founder and CEO Jeff Gabbay tells ISRAEL21c that one country has bought treated fabric from Argaman to make 1 million Bio-Block layered masks and other deals are in the works.Ī slightly different approach is offered by MedCu Technologies, which leverages the antimicrobial properties of oxygenated copper to make advanced wound dressings. We have been given personal licenses to keep our offices and factories open and running so that we are able to work safely on this ardent mission.” The Israeli police forces are receiving an unlimited supply. “This week we sent 400 masks to a teaching hospital in Germany and donated 400 to be distributed through Latet. Healthcare facilities in Nahariya were among the first to receive a consignment of hundreds. “We hired 120 unemployed factory workers to produce them at Kiryat Motzkin and we are donating the masks with the help of philanthropic supporters,” he says. “We can produce now up to 3,000 masks per day,” Shay Hershcovici of Sonovia tells ISRAEL21c.
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