For the team at Mera Chemicals, it was obvious that the health and medical fraternity would soon face a crisis in battling Covid-19. As industrial chemists, the team realised they had the skills, expertise and capacity to be part of the solution.

With an overwhelming and critical need for hospital grade sanitiser, Mera diverted their manufacturing capacity to meet that need. In order to comply with the TGA’s standards for hospital grade classification - and to be able to kill 99.9% of germs - the team at Mera needed to develop a product that would contain 80% ethanol as a minimum but the ethanol required at the volume needed wasn’t easy to source.

Aware of the situation, the Government prioritised the critical supply of ethanol for the purpose of manufacturing sanitiser for medical fields. Mera then set to work transforming their manufacturing plant to safely and effectively get hospital grade sanitiser made, bottled and out the door to the essential services personnel who so desperately need it to keep working with our country’s most vulnerable citizens.

“We know a lot of distilleries have pitched in to create sanitiser for consumers, however few have been able to create a product with 80% ethanol to meet the high volume needed by the health sector - higher than any other time in history.”

After speaking with the Australian Medical Association about their requirements, the team at Mera discovered that to support essential services - health care centres, medical clinics, aged care facilities and the like - their product needed to be nothing less than hospital grade and had to be manufactured on a massive scale to support Australian health and essential workers.

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