South Korea’s Samsung Electronics is introducing its Silver Nano health system into the Philippines. The Silver Nano line of appliances uses silver-based antibacterial materials.
Although its silver-based washing machine and refrigerator have met with success in Southeast Asia, their introduction outside of the region marks a milestone for the company, according to Sang Youl Eom, president and CEO of the Philippine division of Samsung.
“We have taken a giant leap toward maintaining our consumers’ health-related safety standards through the silver nano technology,” Sang Youl Eom says.
The Silver Wash washing machine uses 99.99% pure silver to sanitize and deodorize clothes. More than 400 billion silver ions are released and penetrate into fabric during a typical washing cycle. The company guarantees that the antibacterial action of silver will last about 30 days on clothes. Not only does the silver sanitize clothes; it keeps the washing machine’s internal parts free of germs.
The company has also integrated its Nano Silver health system into refrigerators, where it is used in food trays, water filters and tubing to kill bacteria, and in air conditioners, where it is used in surfaces that touch water from condensation.
The Silver Nano health system relies on the dispersal of a colloidal silver solution of sub-microscopic size (1-100 nano metres) that can easily penetrate cell walls. When these silver nano particles come into contact with bacteria and viruses, they disrupt their structure and inhibit cell growth.
As part of its own growing interest in silver in appliances, Samsung’s competitor LG Electronics has introduced to the Middle East market its “‘TV refrigerator,” which allows people to enjoy music, movies, satellite broadcasting and cable TV in the kitchen, through a small TV placed on the appliance door.
Equipped with a multi-aperture flow cooling system, which stops heat from the TV from reaching the refrigerator, the refrigerator uses “Bio Silver” and “Bio Shield,” LG’s brand of nano silver technology, to provide anti-bacterial protection.
— The preceding is an excerpt from Silver News, a quarterly publication of the Washington, D.C.-based Silver Institute.
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