| abstract |
The invention relates to an antimicrobial wood material- based piece of furniture (1, 2, 3, 5) with a plastic laminate coating, comprising a plastic laminate coating placed on a furniture surface, preferably on a contact surface, and hav ing a thickness of 0,4-1,4 mm, and said laminate coating comprising one or more overlapping films (641... 646), each of said films consisting of paper impregnated with resin, especially melamine resin or polyester resin. In the invention, the piece of furniture has its plastic laminate coating provided with antimicrobial activity at least against S.aureus and E.coli, whereby the plastic laminate coating, when tested according to standards ISO 22196 or J IS Z 2801, has antimicrobial activity which eliminates at least 95% of bacteria used in the test, the antimicrobial activity of the piece of furniture's plas tic laminate coating has been achieved by impregnating one or more films of the plastic laminate coating with at least one resin batch which has been supplemented with a silver-containing adjuvant in such an amount that each sil ver-containing film of the laminate coating contains silver 0,005-0,1% by weight calculated from the total weight of resin incorporated in each silver-containing film, and the plastic laminate coating's antimicrobial activity has been achieved by impregnating paper, comprising a top most film of the plastic laminate coating, especially deco rative paper, with several resin batches, whereby the final resin batch has been supplemented with a silver- containing adjuvant in such an amount that the laminate coating's topmost film contains silver 0,005-0,1% by weight calculated from the total weight of resin batches contained in said topmost film. |