Clean Chemistry Announces EPA Biocide Registration

PeroxyMAX Biocide Designation Enables Industry Access to the Next
Generation of Disinfectants

BOULDER, Colo.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Clean
Chemistry, a chemical technology company, announced today that its
patented PeroxyMAX
chemistry has received EPA (Environmental Protection Agency) biocide
registration. This is particularly significant as the industry has long
been seeking safer, more efficient chemicals with less toxic byproducts
than the traditional chlorine chemistries.

Pathogens are evolving and have built resistances to traditional
treatment methods; bacteria in water loops can develop chlorine
tolerance in as little as a few days. Higher performing chemistries are
needed to prevent expensive biofouling damage in industrial environments
and preserve product quality for things like crops and energy
production. Clean Chemistry has taken advantage of recent advances in
process control technology, enabling the distributed production of
higher performing, short lived chemistries. PeroxyMAX can deliver higher
reactivity in a safer package without leaving a trail of toxic residuals
and byproducts.

PeroxyMAX is already used extensively in upstream water management in
the oil and gas sector. Today, the new biocide registration, under EPA
FIFRA (Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act) enables
Clean Chemistry to tap into a $10B market, solving a much broader
variety of microbial control problems in various industrial processes.
New industries that the company will be able to explore include food and
beverage, pulp and paper, power plants, mining and cooling towers.

“Most industries are continuing to shift toward greater water re-use and
bacteria control is the first thing you need to manage in water loops,”
said Damon Waters, Clean Chemistry CEO and Co-founder. “Now that
PeroxyMAX is an EPA-approved biocide, Clean Chemistry is able to serve
these markets with a better product.”

Current solutions available to address the microbial contaminants in
water are either low performing, shelf stable oxidants like bleach or
hazardous, corrosive gases. PeroxyMAX’s unique chemistry fills the
enormous gap between those two groups, outperforming all other liquid
oxidants including peracetic acid, hydrogen peroxide and sodium
hypochlorite, without the downsides associated with gaseous oxidants
such as chlorine, chlorine dioxide or ozone.

This chemistry is the only liquid formulation capable of delivering
large scale quantities, volumes and concentrations of Reactive Oxygen
Species (ROS). “Singlet oxygen is the primary ROS employed in PeroxyMAX,
which is powerful and selective towards bacteria that are damaging
towards industrial processes and has demonstrated effectiveness on
harmful bacteria including E. coli and legionella,” said Dr. Wayne
Buschmann, Clean Chemistry CTO and Co-founder. “At the same time
PeroxyMAX has an environmentally benign and non-toxic residual, which is
particularly important to industries like food and beverage, pulp and
paper and water.”

Clean Chemistry is aggressively pursuing additional registrations from
various agencies to offer PeroxyMAX to a wider array of markets.

For more information about Clean Chemistry, please visit our website.

About Clean Chemistry
Founded
in 2012, Clean
Chemistry is a chemical technology company based in Boulder,
Colorado with offices and clients around the country. They are
developing and distributing the next generation of oxidants and
disinfectants in safe, liquid solutions employing high concentrations of
Reactive Oxygen Species (ROS). Clean Chemistry has established its
PeroxyMAX chemistry as a preferred water conditioning product in
upstream oil & gas and now is expanding its reach into pulp & paper,
cooling towers, food & beverage, medical, and other industries.

Contacts

Matter for Clean Chemistry
Amanda King
[email protected]