What connects OXYSCLEAN® to Luxembourg?
HISTORY
OXYSCLEAN® started to be commercialised in 2015 in Brazil. Five equipment were already running in different locations when, in January 2016, OXYS BRASIL decided to expand its market to Europe and contacted a Luxembourg lawfirm, specialised in international trade and business development and which was was commissioned by the leaders of OXYS BRASIL Ltda to deliver a survey of the European market, in order to clear the path for the realisation of the plan to establish an industrial foothold for the OXYSCLEAN® technology, in Luxembourg.
Ultimately, an OXYSCLEAN® equipment manufacturing plant is now deemed to be opened in Luxembourg in 2024, in order to attend the EU- and related markets needs. The marketing strategy suggested by the Luxembourg office, in November 2016 to OXYS BRASIL, was accepted and relevant contacts were soon made with Luxembourg environmental, scientific and medical authorities.
BRASIL, 5 locations of OXYSCLEAN® fully licenced equipments already operating in 2016.
WHY LUXEMBOURG?
Luxembourg is not only one of the main business gateways to the EU, it offers as well the adequate critical mass to experiment the OXYSCLEAN® technology. Due to its small size, the country doesn't have any traditional healthcare waste disposal facility of its own and therefore resorts exporting the infectious waste to countries like Belgium, France and the Netherlands, thus placing itself in inconsistency with the EU principles of proximity and self-sufficiency.
Incidentally, the nominal capacity offered by the OXYSCLEAN® device replies perfectly, in terms of volume, to the needs of the country. Luxembourg produces currently up to 600t of hazardous and semi-hazardous healthcare waste per year,* produced by approximatively 2,300 hospital beds for an overall population of approx. 630,000.** The nominal capacity of one current OXYSCLEAN® unit can go of up to 2,000 metric tonnes per year.
*not including veterinarian, laboratory & retirement home waste.
**2019
The beautiful city of Luxembourg, the European business and investment hub.
AGREEMENT WITH LUXEMBOURG C.H.E.M. PUBLIC HOSPITAL
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In January of 2018 the new technology was formally introduced to the Luxemburg Federation of Hospitals (F.H.L.) and, at this occasion, a pilot-project was instituted in order to allow the promoters of the technology to prove the concept in accordance with EU legal framework. The public hospital group "Centre Hospitalier Emile Mayrich"* (C.H.E.M.), known for its cutting-edge approach in technology, volunteered to supply its waste for the purpose of testing of the first equipment ever to operate on European territory.
VALIDATION OF TECHNOLOGY
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It was C.H.E.M.'s legitimate request that, prior to the practical testing phase, a technological validation report should be provided by the "Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology" (L.I.S.T. - https://www.list.lu/), in order establish the reality of the technology.
In October 2019, the L.I.S.T. team for Environmental Microbiology and Biotechnology, under the leadership of Dr. Henry Michel Cauchie, PhD in microbiology, undertook the validation survey of the Brazil-based OXYSCLEAN® devices and published its final conclusion of the technology, in December of 2019.
Dr Henry-Michel Cauchie and Anderson Guimarães surveying OXYSCLEAN® equipment in Santa Luzia, MG, Brazil (Oct 2019).
REAL-LIFE TESTING
Finally, in November 2019, in order to realise the practical aspect of the proof of concept, OXYSLUX has formed a relevant partnership with Luxembourg-based ADY'S HYGIENE. ADY'S will be operating the pioneer equipment in EUROPE during the test phase of 6 months under the supervision of L.I.S.T., as agreed with CHEM and will continue offering its services in the wake of the successful conclusion of the pilot-project.
The latter, including the environmental licensing procedure, is expected to go ahead as from end of 2025, in association with the engineering company Goblet & Lavandier.
Bob Braun, Ceo of ADY'S.LU (https://www.linkedin.com/in/brabob)
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"Together with the inventor, Anderson Guimarães, we updated the technology and are aiming at going online with decomposer OXYS-02 by fall 2025."
(Bob Braun, Managing director of ADY'S HYGIENE)
