ADDITIVES | ANTIMICROBIALS
processing and end-use conditions and perfor- mance requirements before making a technical recommendation in any application. Moloney, meanwhile, cautions that not all silver technologies are the same: “Companies should take the time to identify their product requirements and use those requirements to choose the best technology for their application.” This advice can be applied more broadly to any active ingredient and any plastics application—understanding how and where a product will be used is one of the keys to success.
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dispensers incorporate BioCote’s silver-based additive in external casing and dispensing parts
silver-based antimicrobials at competitive cost. There is interest in alternative metals to silver,
according to Microban’s Ivan Ong. “Zinc-based antimicrobials are, like silver, effective in protecting polymers. However, due to the temperature sensitivity of zinc-based chemistries, they are not employed in polymers that are processed at higher temperatures,” he explains. Microban uses both zinc and silver-based
antimicrobials in many polymer applications, with Ong explaining that the company carefully studies
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