STERIS Recognized for Innovation

STERIS Corporation is pleased to announce that it has been awarded a NorTech Innovation Award for the development of a large-scale decontamination system which utilizes the Company’s proprietary VHP® hydrogen peroxide decontamination technology including Vaprox® Hydrogen Peroxide Sterilant.

This technology has been widely used in the pharmaceutical and research industries for biodecontamination of aseptic processing environments and clean rooms of up to 7,000 cubic square feet. In response to the anthrax attacks in October 2001, STERIS expanded upon its existing technology by developing a scaled-up decontamination system that is effective in decontaminating buildings up to 1.4 million cubic square feet. The enlarged system was utilized on two federal buildings contaminated in the 2001 anthrax attacks.

"Strategic Technology Enterprises (STE) developed the large-scale decontamination system in an effort to respond to an identified bioterrorism threat to our society. STE is actively engaged in developing innovative technology solutions that assist the homeland security, transportation, defense, space, building decontamination, and food and beverage industries”, says Gerry Reis, Senior Vice President and President of Strategic Technology Enterprises, Inc., a subsidiary of STERIS Corporation. “We are proud and grateful to have pioneered the first deployment of VHP technology to combat the threat posed by the intentional release of a weaponized biological agent.”

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