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BIOVIT Invents Antimicrobial Textile

GyeoungHyang News, 2020-06-15

The newest startup company in Seoul Center for Creative Economy & Innovation, BIOVIT, has been gathering attention with its antimicrobial textile utilizing BV AMP

(Human-derived antimicrobial adhesive protein). The antimicrobial textile has been shown reserved efficacy even after multiple trials of washing, and could be

used to make masks, surgical clothes, surgical sheets and more.

Currently BIOVIT’s antimicrobial protein products have been implements toward lens, kiosk, and other physical contamination issue products. In the future,

BIOVIT hopes to expand their product lines in medical and public commodity fields as antimicrobial coatings.

As a biotech-based startup company, BIOVIT has been working towards confirming its product efficacy against various virus infections including COVID-19,

preparing for the post-COVID age. BIOVIT’s CEO Yongtae Kim expressed his excitement as “BIOVIT’s technology is receiving more attention as antimicrobial

product demand is on the rise. Thus, BIOVIT will keep progressing to make sure the antimicrobial proteins reach out against all pathogens.”
 

Management of Seoul Center for Creative Economy & Innovation also adds that “no resource will be spared towards improvement for startups and

communication on multiple fronts.”