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Superbug-busting firm could help save lives
A COMPANY set up just two months ago is producing a range of superbug-busting products for the healthcare industry that could be worth around £50m in its first year.
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.
The Hartlepool company has the licence to formulate the technology into products required in the UK.
Bill Abbott, managing director of Biosolutions International and Hydrochem Group, told the Mail: "All of this is going to get very big.
"We are not being blase about it. We know we have got a lot of work to do and directives to meet.
"Darren Magee of Endo-Med and Key Health Solutions came to me and said 'can you make this?'
"I said we can make something better.
"Darren and I are both from Hartlepool and we are adamant that we want this to be a locally-based company with an international image.
"We definitely want this to be made in Hartlepool using local people. We believe Hartlepool has the people, technology and ability to do it."
Mr Magee said: "We hope to take this not just to hospitals, but to the domestic and cosmetic markets.
"It could bring lots of jobs and could save many lives."
The company could be taking people on as early as Easter.
Scientists at Biosolutions International are currently making the first batches of products and the company is working with Hartlepool Borough Council and Business Link to look for a full manufacturing plant in town.
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