that’s reflective. So instead of making one, we found a metal box supplier and bought a bunch of them—tried them all out and went through a bunch of prototypes and got it to where it is today.” Brought to production in just six weeks, the unit is capable of sanitizing up to 20 masks per hour and weighs just seven and a half pounds—clocking in at about the size of a small suitcase. Te unit is extremely user-friendly, requiring just four easy steps, and automatically stops after the five- minute sanitization cycle is over. Te masks are then ready for reuse. “We’re actually seeing a very positive reaction,” said
Chant. “We’ve sold some to the larger organizations who have employees that wear these masks all day. It’s not a pleasant experience. And mask prices have skyrocketed. So if you have to wear the same one all day, at least if you stick it in this box for five minutes, you know that it’s sanitized and you’re putting a clean one back on. “My take was, if you put a few of these in a break
room, or a nursing station, or wherever it makes the most sense—in whatever industry you’re in—it’s quick and effective. And that, to me, was the key to the whole thing. Taking care of your employees—that’s the goal.” Chant also developed a separate company, Puratize
LLC, and recently set up a distributor in Florida. “We’re not doing crazy production yet because it’s really just getting going,” he said. “Te hardest part is actually getting the word out—but now that we have a distributor lined up, we expect it to pick up. We’ve gotten a lot of great feedback from health and safety people, but we haven’t had the Amazon, so to speak, that contacts us and says we want them for every breakroom and every warehouse. But I think we’ll see that change.” From the standpoint of competition, Chant really
The 5 minute Portable PPE Mask Sanitizer
isn’t seeing much. “Tere are lots of UVC light sanitizing- type systems, but not with LEDs, and that’s what really separates us,” he emphasized. “Tey’re so durable. You can move this box around, drop it—it’s hard to damage. Te typical UVC system uses the equivalent of fluorescent light bulbs, but they’re UVC bulbs. Te problem is they generate a lot of heat and they’re fragile. We’ve eliminated those problems, so it’s exciting from a business standpoint. It’s a new way of thinking.”
Chant also sees this initial
product as simply the first stage. “Te second stage is to start looking at some things that are larger scale and start talking to people in those industries and see if we can start getting some traction. We’ve gone from where this
For more information, visit
www.puratize.com
Article Footer Founded in 1970 and respected as a leader in the lifting and rigging industry, Chant Engineering is a global, diversified engineering company that designs, manufactures, services and calibrates testing machines, systems, and related accessories for worldwide industrial and military customers. Learn more at
www.chantengineering.com.
WIRE ROPE EXCHANGE JULY–AUGUST 2020 31
wasn’t on anyone’s mind earlier in the year, to everybody’s wearing gloves and not touching anything and wearing masks. And I’m not so sure this new way of living is going away any time soon.”
BASED ON NECESSITY As for how this new product, and the process connected to it, has influenced Chant Engineering as the company moves forward
with a sharper focus on global health crises or any other circumstances that require fast action for the greater good, Chant said this has absolutely been a time of education and perspective. “If you think about everything we touch today as a
society, and how everyone is now focused on cleanliness and sanitation,” he said, “all of that stuff can be sanitized. And the benefit of using UV light, especially UV-light LEDs, are numerous. Tey last for ten thousand hours, and they’re not harmful if you don’t look at them—and there are ways to shroud them so you don’t see them. Tink of all the things we touch in a given day. We can sanitize very efficiently and cost-effectively—and at least we know that in that one segment, it’ll be clean. I think that, for us, we’ve picked a few real large-scale ideas and we’re working on that, to come out with more products in those areas—for sanitizing the large-scale. So, I think we’re going to have more products that come out of this, based on necessity.”
Tis experience has also informed the company’s mindset, added Chant. “What can we do in this UVC LED light industry to coincide with our larger business? Maybe our current M.O., which is based on the thirds I mentioned earlier, is now divided up into quarters—with something new comprising a new quarter. So, we’re willing to put the money into R&D and exploring where we can take it, because in the end, it truly benefits everyone.” y
Inside view
Page 1 |
Page 2 |
Page 3 |
Page 4 |
Page 5 |
Page 6 |
Page 7 |
Page 8 |
Page 9 |
Page 10 |
Page 11 |
Page 12 |
Page 13 |
Page 14 |
Page 15 |
Page 16 |
Page 17 |
Page 18 |
Page 19 |
Page 20 |
Page 21 |
Page 22 |
Page 23 |
Page 24 |
Page 25 |
Page 26 |
Page 27 |
Page 28 |
Page 29 |
Page 30 |
Page 31 |
Page 32 |
Page 33 |
Page 34 |
Page 35 |
Page 36 |
Page 37 |
Page 38 |
Page 39 |
Page 40 |
Page 41 |
Page 42 |
Page 43 |
Page 44 |
Page 45 |
Page 46 |
Page 47 |
Page 48 |
Page 49 |
Page 50 |
Page 51 |
Page 52 |
Page 53 |
Page 54 |
Page 55 |
Page 56 |
Page 57 |
Page 58 |
Page 59 |
Page 60 |
Page 61 |
Page 62 |
Page 63 |
Page 64 |
Page 65 |
Page 66 |
Page 67 |
Page 68 |
Page 69 |
Page 70 |
Page 71 |
Page 72 |
Page 73 |
Page 74 |
Page 75 |
Page 76 |
Page 77 |
Page 78 |
Page 79 |
Page 80 |
Page 81 |
Page 82 |
Page 83 |
Page 84 |
Page 85
