Superbug-busting firm could help save lives - Hartlepool Mail.
Bio-Solutions International, a new company set up at Graythorp Industrial Estate, Hartlepool, aims to be a world leader in producing the newly-developed technology that could stop MRSA, C difficile and other infections in their tracks – saving thousands of lives. It is estimated that the manufacturing of the products could create 15 jobs at the company's yet-to-be sourced factory and laboratory, which will be in Hartlepool, and a further 15 in providing training in the use of the chemicals, as well as the manufacture of the machines. The products are a sanitiser, disinfectant and de-odouriser called Superquat80, a Biostat RU500 chemical that destroys microbes and a Superhydroxyl generator which disinfects the air passing into it. It is thought 150,000 hydroxyl units at around £300 each could be sold worldwide within the first year – totalling £45m. The other products could turn over at least £1.5m. Bio-Solutions International is currently based in the premises of water treatment firm Hydrochem Group after being set up by bosses from Hydrochem, Pearson and Black, Peter Stagg and Endo-Med, which will be distributing the products. The new company was only registered in August and already it has big plans to corner the global market with the ground-breaking technology. Similar bio-stat technology has already been used by the American Armed Forces in uniforms and the hydroxyl generator units are being installed in hospitals throughout the world.
