About Aquatabs
Aquatabs is the defacto name in water disinfection tablets. Annually around the globe Aquatabs treat over 7.9 billion gallons of suspect fresh water. Established over 35 years ago, Medentech, the developers of Aquatabs, have been trusted by the world’s leading non-profits, disaster relief organizations, and adventurers to disinfect their water.
As part of the Kersia group, the world leader in food safety, Medentech continues to drive a significant positive health impact by improving access to safe drinking water and reducing surface contamination globally. Combining the expertise of diverse international biosecurity players has placed Kersia in the perfect position to meet biosecurity challenges facing the world. Globally, employees share and cultivate our group values of Transparency, Sharing, Proficiency and Foresight.
1984
The Beginning
Medentech company founded with the development of a fast acting and effective effervescent tablet, Sterinova, as a portable, easy to use disinfection solution for infant feeding bottles.
1990
Klorsept & Klorkleen
Klorsept and Klorkleen effervescent disinfection and cleaning tablets designed for Hospital infection prevention launched.
Farm biosecurity: Medentech products offer proven growth gain efficiency with proven efficacy against Bird flu, Salmonella and other animal based infections.
1998
New Facility
A new state of the art production facility is opened on Clonard Road.
2016
Aquatabs Flo
Medentech move into water systems. Aquatabs Flo, a low-cost, sustainable water disinfection unit is designed.
2017
Aquatabs Inline
Aquatabs InLine, a new inline pressurized sustainable system is piloted. Designed for communities without infrastructure, the Aquatabs InLine treats a minimum of 95,000 gallons of water.
2018
Kersia
Fortune Magazine name Medentech as one of the "Companies that are changing the world"
The group continues to grow, expanding into Canada and North America.
2019
THE LANCET
Peer reviewed journal, THE LANCET, publishes an article on the effects of inline drinking water chlorination using the Aquatabs Flo. The double blinded study in Bangladesh has been shown to reduce WHO-defined diarrhea in children by over 25%
US CONTACT INFO
Address: 4064 Division Ave S. Grand Rapids, MI 49548
Email: info@aquatabs.us
