Intercon Debuts Cleaners for Lab, Medical Spaces

ST. LOUIS -- Intercon Chemical Company, a developer of specialty cleaning and sanitation chemicals, has launched a new portfolio of branded products, Cleaner MD and Cleaner LS to support the sanitation and contamination-control requirements of surgery, healthcare, laboratory, pharmaceutical and biomedical environments.

At Cleaner MD, we believe that SPD sustainability and performance should go hand in hand. Our innovative product line delivers best-in-class, high-performance solutions that protect people, workplaces, and the environment -- all while ensuring optimal efficiency and cost-effectiveness.

"Sterile Processing Departments (SPD) for surgical instruments in hospitals and surgery centers, pharmaceutical production facilities, Life Science research and laboratory environments all demand an entirely different level of precision for sanitation and contamination control," said Jim Epstein, founder, president and CEO of Intercon.

"Our goal is to give critical cleaning facilities managers the best solutions available to meet rigorous cleanliness and performance standards, with service and support from our distribution partners."

The company also collaborates with leading national brands and global supply distributors while continuing to expand its product portfolios across multiple industries.

Intercon has been developing and manufacturing the "Intel inside" leading global brands in the medical detergent and life science markets for 40 years. The introduction of the Cleaner MD and Cleaner LS brands offers customers in the SPD and Life Science / Laboratory / Pharma settings new, improved technology and cost savings over current market options.

Intercon operates a 300,000-square-foot EPA- and FDA-registered manufacturing facility in St. Louis's Cortex Technology zone. The company employs multidisciplinary teams of chemists, engineers, and production specialists dedicated to developing and producing high-performance formulations for professional markets, supporting its commitment to innovation in cleaning chemistry and product-delivery systems.

“Intercon's Cleaner MD and Cleaner LS product lines offer distributors and service providers in the medical, healthcare, laboratory, life sciences surgery and sterile processing a comprehensive solution to support these facilities,” said Jeff Rhodes, VP of Sales and Marketing at Intercon. "When you consider a hospital, surgery center, pharmaceutical plant or research facility, there are multiple departments using a wide range of products to clean, sanitize, and disinfect surfaces throughout their operations."

With increased focus in medical facilities on water quality and standards, Intercon has been instrumental in developing innovative formulations that meet cleaning requirements based on the changing water and environmental standards across North America.

"There are also new water quality standards (ST108) within the industry, so there's a lot of discussion taking place within the healthcare community about products that will work within those new standards, and our products do," Rhodes said.

The Cleaner MD and Cleaner LS brand products are the latest innovations that demonstrate Intercon's four decades of commitment to chemical excellence.

"What we learn from working in diverse markets including disinfection, laundry, dishwashing and green cleaning helps inform our technologies for performance across all our product categories – especially the Cleaner MD and Cleaner LS lines, where standards for sterility are at their highest…  and of course, what we've learned from 40 years working in the SPD departments has improved our chemistry in our other categories of business," said Epstein.

Founded in 1982 in St. Louis, Missouri, Intercon Chemical Company is privately held and a manufacturer of specialty cleaning and sanitation chemicals serving healthcare, commercial, institutional and industrial markets across North America.

For more information or to learn how to become a distributor or service provider, visit www.interconchemical.com or www.cleanermd.com.