The Formula for High-Performance Fabrics: Alta^™ Healthcare Technology

Standard Textile Interior’s is launching its second collection with Applied Textiles Alta™ Healthcare fabric technology. This award-winning, antimicrobial, water-based fabric technology with moisture barrier is designed to deliver the correct level of protection for each application, whether it’s lighter-duty administrative areas or heavy-duty and high-traffic areas such as lobbies, waiting rooms, or food and beverage concessions/dining rooms.

Stains Don’t Stand a Chance

Alta™ repellency technology improves the surface energy of the textile creating repellency to water and oil-based liquids, dust, and airborne particulates. The antimicrobial integrates with the Alta™ repellency to eliminate microbes, bacteria, fungus, and mold upon contact. The combination of Alta™ repellency and antimicrobial properties ensures a textile is highly cleanable, while reducing odors and microbes between cleanings.

Most generic stain finishes are topical, temporary, and will wash or wear off. Alta™ is bonded permanently to the fiber and will last the life of the fabric. Unbranded soil and stain can often make fabrics burn, Alta™ does just the opposite making fabrics meet the correct fire code.

EPA Registered Antimicrobial Fabric Technology

Alta™ antimicrobial technology combines high level repellency with a safe, EPA registered antimicrobial. Alta™ repellency technology improves the surface energy of the textile creating repellency to water and oil-based liquids, dust, and airborne particulates. The antimicrobial integrates with the Alta™ repellency to eliminate microbes, bacteria, fungus, and mold upon contact. The combination of Alta™ repellency and antimicrobial ensures a textile is highly cleanable, while reducing odors and microbes between cleanings.

Other benefits of Alta™ Healthcare include:

• Comprised of 95% water and 5% custom Fluorine solution.
• Antimicrobial and highly repellent, preventing liquids, and contaminants from absorbing into a textile of any fiber content.
• Free of any solvents or VOCs (volatile organic compounds), PFOS, PFOA, formaldehyde, heavy metals or phthalates.
• Utilizes less chemistry than many leading brands without compromising performance. After treatment there is 0.01% of an ounce of chemistry across 1 yard of fabric.
• Can resist up to 100,000 double rubs.
• Complies with EPA, CAL Prop 65 and REACH standards.

A Symphony of Patterns and Colors. See the Ensemble Collection.

Standard Textile Interiors Ensemble Collection offers four Alta™ finished fabric patterns– Homage, Sonata, Midsummer, and Avenue– with various colorways. Learn more about the new collection here.

About Applied Textiles

Founded in 1992, Applied Textiles offers the textile industry a comprehensive range of services and a breadth of textile technology. In 2015 Applied Textiles launched Alta™, the first and only permanent textile protection technology custom-built for specific applications and environments, such as healthcare, senior living, education, hospitality, and more.

Applied Textiles is headquartered in Grand Rapids, Michigan, as well as a location in Graham, NC. International locations include Applied Textiles Asia in Hangzhou, China and Applied Textiles Europe in Prato, Italy. For more information visit applied-textiles.com and follow Applied Textiles on Facebook (@AppliedT), Instagram (@appliedtextiles), and YouTube .

SOURCE: Applied Textiles