In 1994, the founders of Hydroclave Systems Corp, set out to design a process to sterilize infectious waste in a safe, non-polluting, and cost-effective manner.

he need was evident: Increasingly, infectious waste producers, such as hospitals, clinics and laboratories, were coming under pressure to shut down their incinerators, and find alternative ways to treat such waste.

Twenty years experience in the industrial heat transfer/steam engineering field was applied to ensure that all waste particles would be subjected thoroughly and evenly to the heat that kills micro organisms, from the smallest pieces such as needles, to bulk liquid infectious waste.