Seoul Viosys and SETi have reported a wide range of applications with its Violeds technology, which was claimed to achieve 99.9% sterilization of coronavirus. After the collaboration with automotive component supplier and home appliance makers to apply the technology for car interior disinfection and laundry tank cleaning, the two company announced the launch of portable air purifier with Violeds under the brand “VAC.”

SETi and Seoul Viosys are going to release Violeds technology adopted portable air purifiers to reduce the risk of infection from different pathogens including the novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) in the air.

The portable air purifier VAC with Violeds embedded in the air purification system sterilizes new coronavirus and various harmful bacteria. Comparing to conventional air purifiers that only collect bacteria or viruses by filters, VAC further diminish them with UV LED radiation to significantly reduce the number of harmful microorganism in the air.

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Moreover, HEPA filter in purification system can filter out in general fine dust and droplets more than 0.3μm but the viruses such as new coronavirus and SARS virus itself as small as 0.1μm after the droplet is dried can pass through the HEPA filter as it is.

The products will be sold online in South Korea and the U.S. at first starting in June. The company will also continue to sell the products in cooperation with potential global partners in the future. In addition, it will expand online sales to Europe and Southest Asia in June along with new portable surface sterilizers, brand named “VSM”.