Active anti-bacterial tiles: playing an active role in everyday life

Increasingly oriented towards environmental sustainability, the production cycles of today’s porcelain tiles improve the performance of surfaces and underline apparently invisible features.

With its eco-active porcelain tiles, Iris Ceramica not only saves energy and prevents pollution during the manufacturing process (for instance, with automatic water recycling systems), but takes the green philosophy right into the home.

Iris tiles in the Active line have anti-pollutant and anti-bacterial qualities which renew ceramic and make it an “active material”, as the name suggests: a final product that is truly innovative in ecological and hygienic terms.

The result is a porcelain tile that preserves all its material qualities and improves the quality of the air in all kinds of modern buildings, whether residential or commercial, recreational or cultural.

“An active presence for living”, porcelain tiles for interiors in the Active line include six collections: Active Life, Brilliant Active, E-Wood Active, Marmi Imperiali Active, Piasentine Active, and Porcelainwood Active. 

Let us take a look at how the Active principle works: when Iris porcelain tiles are treated with Active Clean Air & Antibacterial CeramicTM, use of micrometric titanium dioxide particles acts as a photocatalyst (triggered by natural or artificial light) to make ceramic eco-active and therefore anti-pollutant and anti-bacterial.

A long-lasting ecological resource perfect for high traffic urban areas such as schools, hospitals and clinics, where floors and pavements must be aseptic and free of harmful microorganisms.

This is, for instance, the case of Active Life, the first of the eco-active porcelain tile collections, in soft colours perfect for all kinds of spaces in the home, from the living room to the bathroom and the kitchen.

The classic surfaces of marble-like tiles in the Marmi Imperiali collection feature deep veins that show off the shine and beauty of the material. Active “enriches the line with a new surface in addition to the natural and honed versions”.

Marco Privato

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