MPL Airport Trusting Ventum to Keep Travelers Safe
Thanks to a partnership with the Montpellier start-up Ventum Biotech, Montpellier Airport is decontaminating its entire passenger journey on June 8. The process used is set to conquer the world.
MPL Airport
While the return to normal life is gradually being organized, Montpellier-Méditerranée Airport (AMM) is not lowering its guard against the coronavirus. On the contrary, the health protocol established by the Montpellier platform is scrupulously respected. Nevertheless, the prevention of any contamination will go a step further this week. "This Tuesday, June 8, it will even be a first in the aviation world," said Emmanuel Brehmer, Chairman of the Management Board of AMM.
"This is an unprecedented partnership that has thus been established between the airport and the Montpellier start-up Ventum Biotech," says Emmanuel Brehmer. We cringe at the thought that no one is a prophet in his country. When local talent exists, we would be crazy not to work with them.” Ventum Biotech is a company founded by a couple of scientists: Gina Bandar-Kachou and Loutfi Kachou. In a quarter of a century, they have become specialists in contamination control and decontamination solutions in hospitals. Their company is now ready to intervene in all areas of activity: public and private transport; hotels, tourism and leisure; workspaces ...
Ventum Biotech offers several solutions adapted to targeted spaces, either with a single-use device, or by nebulization of a biocidal product using a robot without human presence. The fog made up of billions of particles (less than 7µ) reaches the most inaccessible places and eliminates any microbial, viral or fungal contamination. This process has proven its effectiveness in fire stations on the front line facing the pandemic.
The opposite of the verbal escalation that the start of the pandemic may have generated in certain “opportunistic” companies, the start-up uses sober and precise language. "We have always refused the imagery of the miracle product," Gina and Loutfi argue. We, in the face of the virus, our weapon is peracetic acid, created in 1902 ". Based in particular on oxygen, peracetic acid is difficult to contain. This is where the enormous added value of Ventum arises, since the company has imagined (with patent pending), the means of conditioning this biocide which eliminates almost 100% of microbes and viruses.
In order to be of local use and to refine its modus operandi, Ventum Biotech has just carried out a full-scale experiment with the Hérault firefighters. "From September 2020 to February 2021, we conducted 6 months of studies with the Departmental Fire and Rescue Service (SDIS 34), explain Gina and Loutfi Kachou. It was a question of finding the solution to disinfect the ambulances between two interventions, even though the time for this mission must be extremely short. We have obtained very good results, with decontamination acquired in 5 minutes.”
Based at the Montpellier BIC, this metropolitan structure that hosts the most promising start-ups, Ventum Biotech also has offices in Paris and… Boston. Moreover, our Montpellier residents are visiting (and convincing) the 50 American states one after the other of the effectiveness of their tool. The practical work carried out at Montpellier airport will also facilitate this work of conviction. Concretely, this June 8, when aeronautical operations will be stopped, technicians will diffuse the biocide by nebulization over the entire customer journey. Immediately afterwards, the decontamination will be almost total.
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