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JBS Couros launches antiviral leather

09/06/2021

Leather manufacturing group JBS Couros has launched a new range of leather with antiviral functionality.

Antiviral technology that the company has called JBS V-Block works by integrating silver microparticles as an additive at the finishing stage. JBS Couros has carried out tests that show V-Block leather to be effective in rendering inactive the SARS-Cov-2 virus, the cause of covid-19.

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