Healthcare · August 21, 2026

Infection Prevention Starts at Your Floor

Duralyx® Crystl Bond can become an important part of your infection-prevention and facility-maintenance strategy, helping protect patients, staff and the floors beneath them.

By Steven A. Anello

CEO, Duralyx® Makers of Crystl Bond

Healthcare floors can act as reservoirs for pathogens and contribute to indirect transmission throughout patient-care environments. Duralyx® Crystl Bond transforms existing flooring with a non-porous, hydrophobic, low-VOC liquid-glass coating engineered to support a cleaner, safer facility.

Whitepaper page 1, "Infection Prevention by Duralyx". Covers hospital floors as a pathogen reservoir for MRSA, VRE and C. difficile, and states that Duralyx Crystl Bond registered zero microbial growth when tested to the ASTM G21 standard. — Four pages. Tap any page to open it full size.

Whitepaper page 2. Healthcare-associated infections cause an estimated 1.7 million cases and over 100,000 deaths a year in U.S. acute care hospitals, at a direct cost of $28 to $45 billion, and the page traces the indirect transmission route from floor to shoes, call buttons, linens and hands. — Four pages. Tap any page to open it full size.

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