First generation
Copper in synthetic fibre. Bought by tender by the Israel Defense Forces for its soldiers’ socks.
Prepared for the Defence Attaché Office, Embassy of Ukraine in France
The soldier who can still fight on day thirty wins.
Active Copper is the base layer that keeps him fighting: skin intact, feet sound, wounds clean. We are putting 200 kits on your soldiers, free of charge, so they feel it for themselves.
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Under the armour, his skin is fighting a second war.
Days without a wash. Wet boots. Small cuts that never get clean. This is what takes soldiers off the line.
This is the layer that fights back.
Worn against the skin, head to foot, day and night.
Fine-ribbed micromodal.
Thin, soft and close to the body. And loaded with copper.
Copper, bound to every fibre.
Our own process, patent filed, fixes copper to the fibre itself. It is part of the fabric, not a coating on it.
Sweat switches it on.
Moisture releases copper ions. They tear open bacterial membranes and shut down the proteins that bacteria and fungi need to live.
99.9% of bacteria eliminated.
Laboratory tested on the fabric. Still above 99% after five washes.
Illustration
The enemy he carries with him.
US Army researchers sequenced soldiers’ boots, uniforms and canteens. Every type of kit carried bacteria that infect wounds. Kok et al., Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 2024
It takes more soldiers off the line than most people think.
What copper does for a soldier.
Science has known it for decades. We built it into a fabric a soldier can live in.
No itch. No burning feet. No infected scratch. Nothing left on his mind but the mission.
Proven for 4,600 years.
Copper is not an experiment. Physicians, hospitals, regulators and armies have relied on it for generations. Active Copper puts it against your soldiers’ skin.
Three moments where copper decides.
And when he is hit, copper rebuilds.
Follow one small cut, under the fabric.
Every cut is an open door.
In the field, bacteria reach it within hours.
Copper shuts it.
Copper ions leave the fabric and destroy the bacteria at the edges of the cut.
Then it rebuilds the skin.
Skin needs copper to heal. Copper calls in new blood vessels and switches on the cells that lay down collagen and elastin.
Closed. Faster.
In published studies, copper-oxide dressings closed wounds faster than standard dressings, and faster than silver.
Borkow, Gabbay et al., Wound Repair and Regeneration, 2010 · Ogen-Shtern et al., Journal of Cosmetic Dermatology, 2020 · Melamed et al., Advances in Wound Care, 2025 · Illustration
The most advanced copper textile ever made.
Three generations of copper fabric. One inventor. This is the third.
Second generation
Copper in cotton yarn. Worn by Israeli soldiers in combat today. It is the yarn in our socks.
Third generation: Active Copper
Our own process, patent filed, binds copper directly to the finest fibres, at industrial scale, in Portugal. 99.9% of bacteria eliminated. This is what your soldiers will wear.
Science lead Jeffrey Gabbay, inventor on the original copper-oxide textile patent (US 7,169,402) and co-author of the founding studies on copper and wound healing.
Built by a certified manufacturer.
Adalberto Textile Solutions has made textiles in Portugal since 1969. Independent bodies audit our quality, our chemistry, our supply chain and our working conditions.
GOTS, OCS, GRS and RCS: licence EGL/278155.
One kit, head to foot.
Nine pieces in fine-ribbed micromodal and copper cotton. Cut for men and for women.
Per kit
Under the jacket, under the armour, at the desk.
One layer for the rifleman in the trench and the drone pilot on a fourteen-hour shift. Everyone who serves gets the same protection.
Made for the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
The trident, tone on tone: on the chest, on the leg, on a woven label at the waist.
No laundry. No problem.
At the front there is no washing machine. Active Copper does not need one.
Wear it for days. Rinse it in plain water when you can. Replace it when its cycle is done.
After five washes at 40 °C the fabric still eliminates more than 99% of bacteria.
For the unit: no laundry run for the base layer.
- Wear
- Continuously, for days at a time.
- Rinse
- Plain water, up to 40 °C.
- Never
- Detergent or softener: they take the copper with them.
- Replace
- After three wear cycles.
Put it on ninety of your soldiers.
200 kits, supplied free. Six weeks. Your soldiers, your medics, your verdict.
90 soldiers wear it
Two kits each: one on, one in reserve. 60 on the front line, 22 in support roles, 8 women.
90 soldiers beside them
Same units, usual base layer, same questions. The difference between the two groups is the benefit, in numbers.
20 kits in reserve
For size swaps and replacements.
One foot against the other
Thirty front-line soldiers wear a copper sock on one foot and an ordinary sock on the other. After six weeks the feet tell the story.
Two kits cover six weeks
One week on, one week resting after a water rinse.
Participation is voluntary. Soldiers wear the kit as their normal first layer; nothing else in their routine changes.
What your soldiers will feel.
What we stand behind.
The results we commit to, measured on your soldiers.
The report on your desk.
One document, signed by the unit and by us, three weeks after the final check.
Evaluation reportActive Copper base layer · field evaluation
One soldier.
Ninety in the evaluation, ninety beside them.
- Front line
- Support roles
- Women
- Comparison group
Then every division.
Then every soldier.
The front line first. Then drone crews, logistics, command posts. Everyone who serves.What we need from you. What you get from us.
From you
From us
After the evaluation
A supply agreement for Active Copper kits: first several divisions, then the whole army.
The results are yours. We ask only to use them, anonymised.