Active by Fiandre

ACTIVE™, OUR COMMITMENT TO A BETTER WORLD

Fiandre within the framework of their research and innovation activities, have developed a new production method geared towards materials whose active principle helps to improve the quality of the environment.

This production methodology makes it possible to create ceramic floor and wall tiles able to carry out a specific antibacterial action and to reduce polluting factors that are, unfortunately, a constant presence in contemporary urban environments.

With Active™ Clean Air & Antibacterial Ceramic, today it is possible to use, inside and outside buildings, materials that make an active contribution to creating a better atmosphere and a cleaner environment.

Exploiting the photocatalysis method - whereby a catalyst (in this case titanium dioxide) is able to react whenever sunlight or artificial light of an appropriate wavelength containing UVA rays shines on it, the air is cleaned of polluting organic substances, because oxidation makes the harmful organic substances harmless, bringing about three important actions:

the air is cleared of harmful organic and inorganic substances
surfaces are disinfected and bacteria removed
self-cleaning surfaces are created, exploiting the superhydrophilic effect created by the

presence of the irradiated semiconductor (TiO2).

The application of Active™ Clean Air & Antibacterial Ceramic brings out three qualities of the material, which proves to be:

antipollution
antibacterial
self-cleaning.

This is valid for both indoor and outdoor applications, because the reaction is also obtained thanks to light containing UVA rays and indirect sunlight, since the composition of the atmosphere inside buildings is basically the same as the composition outdoors, although the amount of contaminating agents is different: outdoors we are faced with pollutants, while indoors we have emissions from heating and air conditioning systems and even simply from cigarette smoke.

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