Photo Credit: Alpine Advanced Materials Samples of Alpine Advanced Materials’ (Dallas, Texas) HX5 coated with Signature Plating’s (Cibolo, Texas) Signashield antimicrobial clearcoat have showed a 99.93-percent reduction in Staphylococcus aureus, and a 99.92-percent reduction in E. coli. “As manufacturers face heightened attention on microbe transmission, materials like HX5 will need to be evaluated through that lens, which is why we had this testing done,” says Roger Raley, president of Alpine Advanced Materials. “We learned that it not only coated beautifully with Signashield, but that it also virtually eliminated all harmful microbes when exposed, making it ideal for parts with surfaces that get a lot of contact traffic.”