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EDA Office of Foreign Trade • Riverside County, California • USA
July 2012
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Corona company is drawing
attention from around the world
after developing a product that
turns medical waste – blood, tissue and
all that other potentially hazardous
stuff that ends up in the red bags at the
doctor’s office – into paper confetti for
easy disposal at the landfill.
Absolute Graphic Technologies USA
Inc., or AGT, already has its invention in
use at a collection of medical facilities
in the Portland, Oregon area. The
company now is looking abroad to
Russia and a variety of countries in the
Middle East who are attracted to the
technology’s ability to treat regulated
medical waste with just a fraction of the
water used in traditional treatments.
The most common way to treat such
medical waste is through an autoclave,
which uses pressurized steam and
super-heated water to kill pathogens
and create a gloppy mess that is then
dumped into the landfill. But that
process uses a significant amount
of water, which is problematic for
countries with scarce water supplies.
“That’s really kind of old
technology,” said John O’Neill, Chief
Operating Officer for AGT. “Our product
reduces the volume by 80 percent in
the treatment process, and we use
thousands of gallons of water less than
what others are using. That is why
countries that have a limited water
supply are really interested in the
machine.”
AGT’s TrinovaMed Monarch Green
Machine, manufactured in Corona,
shreds the medical waste, treats it with
chlorine dioxide and other chemicals,
Manufactured in Corona, Revolutionizes Medical Waste Disposal!
Steve Barberi, CEO of AGT