Teamed with Duke and NCSU

Stitch Partners partnered with scientists from Duke One Health and North Carolina State University for the RDU Impact Challenge.  

Together we are working on a solution for safer and cleaner air inside airports to prevent the spread of airborne viruses such as COVID-19.  Our solution with increase travelers' confidence to travel by air and remain healthy while checking in, shopping or eating in the airport, waiting for their flight, and picking up their bags in baggage claim. 

 The Nation Fire Protection (NFPA) is a global self-funded nonprofit organization, established in 1896, devoted to eliminating death, injury, property and economic loss due to fire, electrical and related hazards. 

NFPA delivers information and knowledge through more than 300 consensus codes and standards, research, training, education, outreach and advocacy; and by partnering with others who share an interest in furthering our mission.  Our mission is to help save lives and reduce loss with information, knowledge and passion.

Stitch Partners has an exlusive license agreement with North Carolina State University for a new technology, an elctrostatically charged textile surface, that was developed in the Wilson College of Textiles.  A precentage of all sales will support research at NCSU.

The Actively Charged Textile Surface (ACTS) was developed by Dr. Warren Jasper, a Professor in the Textile Engineering Chemistry and Science Department at North Carolina State University.  Dr. Jasper holds B.S. and M.S. degrees in Aeronautics and Astronautics from Massachusetts Insitute of Technolgy and a Ph.D. from Stanford University in Aeronautics and Astronautics.

Stitch Partners participated in the 2020 National Science Foundation I-Corps Program.

Stitch Partners is working with a team from Duke One Health on researth to prove that ACTS deactivates aersolized SARS-CoV-2.

Duke One Health is part of Duke Global Health Institute. One Health is a worldwide strategy for advancing health care in humans, animals and the environment through communication and collaboration between mutilple disciplines with the realization that human, animal, and environmental health are all connected.