Cruise & Ferry Review - Autumn/Winter 2020

2 0 0 INTERV IEW A clean night’s sleep S leepAngel is a company based in Estonia that manufactures and supplies bedding products for the healthcare sectors in 40 countries. The company is now turning its attention to the hospitality and cruise industries. “The core of SleepAngel’s product line is clinically tested and patent protected medical barrier bedding innovation,” says Sven Jürisoo, CEO and founder of SleepAngel. “It is a combination of innovations originally created to stop cross-infection in medical industry, now adapted with comfort features to fit the needs of hospitality and cruise ship industries. “The problem we want to solve is that pillows, bedding and outdoor soft surfaces are the often overlooked source of contamination, not just for allergens and bed bugs, but also for superbugs, viruses, mould and pathogens. These can enter regular bedding products through stitching holes and zips and multiply due to moist and warm conditions.” In addition, Jürisoo adds that they also act as spreaders because approximately two litres of humid air, contaminated with microorganisms carried in droplet suspension, are aerosolised into the environment every time a person’s head is placed on the pillow. “Traditional bedding therefore acts both as a reservoir, but also exposes each new bedding user to whatever previous users have left behind. Just changing the covers is not enough, very often even washing the bedding is not enough,” says Jürisoo. The solution from SleepAngel is a CE- marked PneumaPure barrier bedding, which is effective against viruses, SleepAngel’s bedding products have hygiene top of the list. Sven Jürisoo tells Richard Humphreys how the company’s solutions can be used in the cruise and hospitality industries “Cruise lines operate in a very demanding area with utmost demands for hygiene”