HELSINKI – The news of a spread of a new coronavirus in China brought Niklas Skogster a bittersweet upturn in his business of electronic air purifiers.
Genano, a company based in Espoo, was meeting urgent orders of 200 of their devices to hospitals located in China’s Wuhan region, the epicentre of the outbreak.
Production capacity in the span of a week was increased five-fold.
Genano has 50 employees in its Finnish office and was used extensively during the SARS and MERS outbreaks. The technology not only collects harmful bacteria and viruses but also kills those down to a nono-scale, eliminating contagion from the devise itself.
Particles as small as three nanometres can be filtered by Genano, using an electrical field and current.
Genano is unique from other similar devices as it uses a combination of exact particle filtration, killing ability and gas filteration.
It has been confirmed by Finland’s Technical Research Centre that this technology can work even against the dreaded coronavirus.
There are also adverse effects of Genano’s business upscale, as they struggle to source components from China now.
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