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| Product novelty from Berger-Seidle: Aqua-Seal ® BioProtect protects finish film from contamination by bacteria and fungi! Grünstadt. Berger-Seidle, the specialist manufacturer of hardwood floor finishes, care products, oils, adhesives and hardwood-floor-associated specialty products, in spring 2011 present their newly developed product: Aqua-Seal ® BioProtect. After comprehensive tests, the product convinces by its significant protection effect against bacteria or fungi contamination. The final consumer knew about this effect for example from refrigerator coats; now it is available also for the protection of hardwood-floor finishes. This product is of particular interest for people suffering from allergies and asthma. Aqua-Seal ® BioProtect is designed as additive; this makes it very easy and flexible for the professional to use. |
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| As hardwood-floor professional one meets more and more sensible customers who place a big premium on finishing products that are particularly environmentally friendly and present no odour nuisance. Moreover the customer often times is heavily affected by allergies or even asthma. Or s/he worries about the toddler playing on the new hardwood floor. This market requirement is now served by Aqua-Seal ® BioProtect, a product novelty the final consumer knew about from refrigerators and vacuum-cleaner bags for example. Aqua-Seal ® BioProtect is added, prior to the application on the floor, to the liquid finishing product in the very small amount of 1 percent. After that the finish is applied to the floor as usual. The dried film, in the consequence of this, is supplied with the extra protection against contamination by bacteria or fungi. Technically this has been achieved thanks to the close cooperation between the Berger-Seidle R&D team and a selected raw-material supplier. In this way, under guidance by Dr David Reindl and Dr Wolfgang Kahlen, the respective fine tuning of the formulas was worked out and further improved in laboratory tests so as to finally arrive at an effective result. "We have found out in our R & D work the right mixture of silver complexes and arrived at an astonishingly good result," explains Dr David Reindl. This fact is confirmed by respective germination tests as per standard method ASTM E 2180-01; reduction rates of partially more than 90 percent and depending on the kind of germination even of up to 100 percent have been established. |
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| Berger-Seidle offer Aqua-Seal® BioProtect in bottles of 100 ml. As this additive is added in the ratio of 1 percent, one bottle is enough for one 10l can or two cans of 5l waterbased finish. Aqua-Seal®BioProtect has been tested and released for different waterbased finish made by Berger-Seidle. So it can be admixed to the products Aqua-Seal ® 2KPU as well as Aqua-Seal ® NanoDiamant. Thanks to the small packaging the storage costs accruing to the floor professional are minimal. By keeping 5 to 10 small bottles in stock it will be, in many cases, possible to react within a short term to the spontaneous wish by the customer to protect his floor. Besides the small storage cost it is the effectively small price that convinces the customer. A small bottle can be bought at the list price of EUR 18.40. "This is an additional effective charge of EUR 1.84 per litre of lacquer or EUR0.20 per coat and per square meter," explains Markus M. Adam, commercial director at Berger-Seidle. This makes for a gain in health protection, for little money. The manufacturer makes clear that the use of Aqua-Seal ® BioProtect of course does not away with the need of a regular and thorough cleaning and maintenance of the floor. In order to ensure an improved permanent protection effect, the specialists at Berger-Seidle designed the product Aqua-Seal ® BioProtect for the use also with compatible care products. So clearance has been given to use it mixed with the care product Everclear ® - also in the small ratio of one percent. This way, it has been demonstrated, Aqua-Seal ® BioProtect allows a permanent plus in health protection for the customer. |
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