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production capacity is 50 units
per month, but the company
management says they have all
infrastructural and manpower
amenities to ramp it up to double
its capacity.
The company has further partnered
with Council for Scientific and
Industrial Research’s only Indian
Institute of Toxicology Research
(CSIR-IITR) to synergize its
technology for infection control.
Under an agreement signed
in Lucknow on 2nd June 2017
between Dr Alok Dhawan (Director
IITR) and Mr Monish Bhandari
(Executive Director SSMED), a
top notch team headed by India’s
leading scientists including Dr Rishi
Shanker, Mr Monish Bhandari and
Dr Mohan Kamthan will now work
closely with OptiMaser and its
clinical applications.
The Microwave Assisted Clinical
group headed by Dr Rishi
Shanker, will research within strict
stipulated time on microwave’s
clinical application. OptiMaser
in turn will incorporate these
clinical references into instant
commercialization at its state of
art two manufacturing facilities
located at Gurugram (Haryana)
& Lucknow (UP). The tech group
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shall collectively work on the Class
A drugs desynthesis/ inactivation,
Rice Husk Disinfection, Cages
Disinfection, Dialyzer Disinfection
for reuse, Blood Bag Disinfection,
T. Linen Sterilization, Plastic tubing
sterilization for reuse and Metal
items sterilization for reuse.
Challenges
Every new technology takes its own
time to get into the commercial
flow, people need to be educated
and then only the technology
becomes profitable. Microwave
for disinfection is a completely
new domain for Indian Medical
fraternity, and thus it at times
creates a road block for us to
change the preset norms and
mindsets of people. The only
indirect technology competitor
of OptiMaser is a 50% cheaper
100 year old steam disinfection
technology, Autoclave.
Opportunities
There is a varied range of
opportunities for us as technology
as this field is almost unexplored.
We have recently signed an MoU
with India’s Only Toxicology
Research Lab IITR (Indian Institute
of Toxicology Research) to enhance