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Press Release
Mount Airy, NC – How fresh and clean the offices smell may be the first thing visitors notice in the recently renovated offices of the Greater Mount Airy Chamber of Commerce and the Mount Airy Visitor Center at 200 North Main Street. The fresh clean smell is not due to a typical, over-the-counter chemical-based air freshener. It is the result of green, state-of-the-art, air sanitation technology called Air Oasis supplied by Healthy Technologies, Inc. based in Pilot Mountain.
As part of the renovation, the Chamber and Visitor Center became the first public offices in the region with this new technology installed in the HVAC duct work to drastically reduce the risk of spreading infectious diseases and to refresh the air. The energy-efficient units, which were installed in the historic building, electronically sanitize the air and surfaces continuously without using filters or harmful chemicals.
In tests conducted in university laboratories, this technology reduced Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus (MRSA) 97% in two hours and the Avian Influenza Virus (Bird Flu) 100% in ten hours. Healthy Technologies’ President, Florene Miller stated, “MRSA and flu viruses have become a potentially serious problem for many public facilities. Visitors and staff will now be able to enter the Mount Airy Chamber of Commerce and Visitor Center offices, confident that a major, innovative, pro-active step has been taken to protect them from the spread of many different types of infectious diseases.”
Rick Vaughn, Manager of Historic Downtown MA, LLC/Granite Development, LLC purchased the purifiers specifically for the Chamber and the Visitor Center renovation project and is to be commended for his efforts to protect the staff and visitors of the Mount Airy Chamber of Commerce and of the Mount Airy Visitor Center.