Possible applications

Think about your healthy life.

The risk of formaldehyde

What is formaldehyde?
Formaldehyde is the chemical substance that has the acute toxicity, and it has a strong odor. IARC alerts the risk causing of Group 1, Carcinogenic to humans.

How can you be exposed to formaldehyde?
You can find formaldehyde in various products—plywood, particleboard, building materials, insulation, furniture, cigarette smoke, etc. Therefore, we are constantly exposed to small amounts of formaldehyde emission from those products.

Health effect of formaldehyde (Sick building syndrome)
✓Headaches ✓Irritation of eye ✓Cough　✓Irritation of throat ✓Fatigue ✓Running nose ✓Rash skin ✓Nausea　✓Fever ✓Difficulty breathing ✓Tightness in the chest ✓Dizziness✓Allergy-like symptoms　✓Backache ✓Buzzing ✓Diarrhea　✓Constipation  

If you have these symptoms after the renovation, purchasing some new furniture or moving house, it might be a sign of health damage by formaldehyde.

【Moldefeat】To protect your life from formaldehyde risk
Moldefeat is the best solution to protect against formaldehyde exposure. We provide you clean indoor environment.

How to use?

Application 1: As the coating agent
Moldefeat can be used in various locations to protect people from formaldehyde risk. (e.g., House, Hotel, Condominium, Office building, Hospital, School, Nursing home, Furniture, etc.)
Recommend coating application method: Spray coating, Roller coating, Brush coating. You don’t need the professional techniques.

Apartment room	Spray coating
Before Coating application	After Coating application

Application 2: As the additive materials under the manufacturing process
Adding Moldefeat under the process of manufacture helps the manufacturer create the original product that can eliminate formaldehyde gas. This must be a stand-out characteristic and could be a great promotion to appeal to the brand.

Recommend user:
Plywood manufacturer, wallpaper manufacturer, furniture manufacturer

Competitive advantage

1: Mechanism to remove aldehyde gas

Generally, a formaldehyde eliminator is manufactured based on a neutralized effect. However, we developed a new technology of absorbing and eliminating formaldehyde formulated based on SiO2 with amino groups (NH2) by sol-gel method.

Fig. 4 The image of amine modified silica particles

Moldefeat is made from silica that has the chemical treatment by the amino group. The amino group reacts against the aldehyde group, which leads to absorbing and eliminating formaldehyde gas.

Moldefeat has a unique adsorption structure, and to be formed of the steric constitution, it can be adsorbed with massive formaldehyde substance at the coated surface.

Fig. 5 Image of the steric constitution and SEM photograph

Since it is generated without gaps on the surface, the specific surface area is about 20 times that of the flat state. Therefore, it enables the adsorption of a large quantity of formaldehyde at once.
The number of these crystalline needles creates 400 million per square centimeter.

Fig.6 Image of surface comparison for standard paint and Moldefeat.

2: Long lasting efficacy

Moldefeat continues to eliminate formaldehyde gas for 4~5 years compared to other products that last only 1 or 2 years. Therefore, there is no need for frequent maintenance, and it leads to saving running costs.

3: Long durability

There is no deterioration on the coated surface, and keep a clear appearance.

Performance

1. Maximum eliminating performance: 600mg/m²（600,000μg/m²)
2. Long lasting efficacy: 4~5 years
3. Performance of formaldehyde reduction: 99 %

                          Test Certification

Technical maturity / Past record of introduction

Moldefeat was developed in 2011. Since then, we have provided many counties to protect against formaldehyde risk.
As the most recent data, we exported Moldefeat as the materials for 800,000㎡ area (as of annual 2021).
Our primary market is Southeast Asia and East Asia. However, we would like to expand this great product, Moldefeat, to worldwide because the formaldehyde problem is a social issue globally.

Information on patent related to this technology

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Company data

Name	MARUSYO SANGYO CO., LTD.
Address	171 Tajimacho, Sano-shi, Tochigi, 327-0031 Japan
Capital	10 million JPY (as of September 2022)
Contact person	Mr. Takayuki YOSHIKAWA E-mail: [email protected] Tel: +81-283-22-1901 Corporate website: https://moldefeat.com/en/
Number of employees	17 (as of September 2022)
Date of company foundation	1 July, 1983
The type of business	Textile manufacturing and chemical products manufacturing

International operation

Number of employees for international operation		20
Overseas offices	City, Country	Name of Company (if applicable)
	Hong Kong, China	CAP Global Limited.
	India	XENON POLYMERS & CHEMICALS

Modality of business transaction

Partnership

1: We would like to establish a partnership with a local company that can import Moldefeat　and implement the coating application.

2: We would like to introduce and export Moldefeat to the manufacturers and make them develop formaldehyde-free products.

Export of product
We would like to export Moldefeat to trading companies.

Schematic illustration of the technology

Product guide: Moldefeat_EN.pdf