Decontaminate Your Product with Ozone
Advanced works with long-time partners Ozone Ultra Clean (OUC) to offer a decontamination service tailored to the needs of the retail market.
The ozone process can be used to treat odours, moulds and fungus, as well as bacteria, viruses, allergens and other volatile organic compounds.
Ozone is the second strongest sanitizer known to man and is the perfect cleanser of any potentially contaminated garments or 3d objects, such as shoes, luggage and leather items.
Ozone treatment is a dry process and the benefits include:
- Tags can stay on the product
- No shrinkage or wear issues
- No colour fastness issues
- No chemical residues
Advanced and OUC have invested more than £100,000 developing an ozone treatment facility capable of handling 100,000 garments and 60,000 3D objects per week during peak periods.
Please download our ozone restoration service brochure here for further information or contact the Advanced sales team on 01274 470 480 to discuss resolving the quality problems affecting your product.
Technical notes
Ozone (O³, a gas composed of three oxygen atoms) is a chemically reactive gas. This simply means that it ‘attacks’ other chemicals. Ozone kills bacteria, viruses and other organic matter by rupturing its cell walls (a process referred to as 'cell lysing'). This occurs when the extra oxygen atom breaks free, destroying the offending organism through oxidation.
Ozone is very powerful but it has a very short life cycle, with Ozone (O³) reverting back into Oxygen (O²) when the extra atom breaks free and oxidisation takes place.
The natural reversion process is accelerated further by the presence of contaminants, pests, allergens, etc, as the oxidation reaction consumes the extra atom within Ozone. Finally, Ozone Ultra Clean’s machinery is equipped to perform a ‘deactivation programme’ that further accelerates the reversion back into Oxygen.
