25 Feb 2011

One of Europe’s top primary suppliers of stock and bespoke packaging will be showcasing a new range of antimicrobial products at the Cleaning Show on the 1st-3rd March at the NEC (Birmingham, UK).

Polaris Plastics, part of the Anker International Group is set to produce the first commercially available waste bag with silver antimicrobial protection. Polaris is calling this new product range the “PP+� bag range.

Polaris is using proven Biomaster ® Antimicrobial Technology in the new range of waste bags which ensure that any contaminated contact with the bag at any point during its lifetime immediately starts to reduce the growth of bacteria on the bag, reducing the risk of cross contamination.

Biomaster Antimicrobial Technology is a range of silver based additives that safely inhibit the growth of bacteria on the product they are incorporated into. Biomaster has been successfully tested against over 50 different species of bacteria such as MRSA, E.Coli, Salmonella, Listeria and Legionella and has been proven to reduce the growth by up to 99.99%.

Polaris Plastics primary target for the new antimicrobial waste bag range is the medical and healthcare markets where bacterial cross contamination an ever present problem. Evidence suggests that a clinical waste bag in a medical environment is handled on average 7 times before arriving at its point of disposal/incineration. Use of Biomaster Antimicrobial Technology reduces the risk of infection being passed on at all contact points.

For more information on Polaris Plastics visit their website:
www.polarisplastics.co.uk

Or visit them at the Cleaning Show at the NEC, Birmingham on stand G12
www.thecleaningshow.co.uk

For further information on Biomaster Antimicrobial Technology visit:
www.biomasteradditives.co.uk

Source - Addmaster, February 2011

Addmaster is Europe's leading supplier of performance additives for a wide range of applications and industries. By working in partnership with its customers and focussing on research and development, highly innovative additives have been created and successfully introduced into many manufacturing environments. Addmaster's advanced products are being used by many of the world's industry leaders in the plastics, paper, paint, textile and coating industries.Addmaster, founded in the year 2000, sees its major objective as capitalising on the lack of innovation which exists in these industry sectors, and has won many business awards for innovations in product development and marketing.

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