Antimicrobial Copper is shorthand for over 500 copper alloys, including brasses, bronzes and copper-nickels, with proven efficacy against the organisms threatening public health today, including so-called hospital superbugs, like MRSA, norovirus and E.coli. While such pathogens can survive on other materials for days, weeks, even months, they are rapidly destroyed on Antimicrobial Copper surfaces. Antimicrobial Copper surfaces work continuously – day and night – between touches and between cleans, contributing towards a more hygienic environment and improving patient safety.
Antimicrobial Copper alloys are cost-effective and durable, and available in a range of colours to suit all design themes, from the rich reds of the high coppers through the warm golden-yellows of the brasses to the silvery-whites of the nickel silvers. These colour choices can help designers create a warmer, more soothing, healing environment and help reduce contamination and the risk of infection.
