A nasty bout of haze in 2015 sparked the will for 2 entrepreneurs to discover a answer to indoor air air pollution. Founders Mr Lester Leong and Mr Benny Jiao each suffered from childhood bronchial asthma, and recall their circumstances being exacerbated by the annual haze season rising up. Their experiences impressed them to search for methods to enhance the air high quality indoors.
Collectively, they based gush, a neighborhood firm specialising in sustainable paints and superior constructing supplies.
“Analysis exhibits that conventional constructing supplies and altering local weather circumstances drastically improve publicity to dangerous unstable natural compounds (VOCs) akin to aldehydes and benzenes, in addition to mould,” the Co-founders clarify.
“The long-term accumulation of air pollution in confined areas can pose a critical risk to bodily and psychological well being. Analysis exhibits that the air indoors might be as much as 5 instances extra polluted than air outdoors due to chemical compounds from cleansing merchandise, aerosols and fragrance,” provides Mr Leong, who’s the Group Chief Govt Officer of gush.
Their goal was clear: “Since partitions kind the largest floor in our densely constructed cities, we thought of innovating probably the most malleable answer attainable: paints.”
Gush consulted professors from native polytechnics, universities and materials scientists from the coating business to develop prototypes. In 2017, after a number of rounds of fine-tuning its system, gush formally launched its flagship product, ‘Cair’. Due to a proprietary catalyst, the paint breaks down VOCs into carbon dioxide and water vapour on the charge of 99 per cent in 21 hours.
In essence, the paint transforms partitions into passive air purifiers to maintain indoor areas wholesome for occupants. The odourless paint can be anti-mould, anti-bacterial, and has humidity-regulating properties.
Bringing wholesome air to houses, places of work and hospitals
Their air-purifying paint was a success with shoppers, each within the residential and company areas. Since its launch, Cair paint has been utilized in greater than 1,300 residential and 60 industrial initiatives within the medical, wellness and hospitality sectors, in addition to in workplace and retail areas in Singapore and Southeast Asia.
Gush’s shoppers embody Thomson Medical Centre, Farrer Park Hospital, Trendy Montessori Worldwide, Tanglin Belief College, Seize, and W Resort.
