Ship&Offshore | Ausgabe 04/2025
New vessel hygiene technology
Vikand and Pyure Dynamic Protection® have developed a new air and surface hygiene technology to protect personnel working on commercial vessels and offshore facilities where people live and work in close quarters for long periods. Infectious diseases, including norovirus, are costly, disruptive, dangerous, and can lead to reputational damage. Pyure’s hydroxyl-generating technology neutralises norovirus and other harmful organisms both in the air and on surfaces. The system generates hydroxyls, reactive molecules that are naturally present in the earth’s atmosphere which neutralise viruses, bacteria, mould spores, and smells....