H. S. Marsh and Ethicon: Sterilisation and Irradiation

Luke Georghiou, J. Stanley Metcalfe, Michael Gibbons, Tim Ray and Janet Evans

Chapter 14 in Post-Innovation Performance, 1986, pp 180-187 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract H. S. Marsh Ltd gained the Queen’s Award for the design and construction of a plant for the sterilisation of medical equipment by gamma radiation. The firm designed the world’s first commercial irradiation plant for the sterilisation of disposable plastic syringes which was commissioned in 1962 for Johnson’s Ethical Plastics Ltd in Slough. This was three months before the commissioning of the irradiation plant for medical sutures, designed by Nuclear Chemical Plant Ltd, for Ethicon Ltd in Edinburgh, who also received a Queen’s Award for innovation in sterilisation of surgical materials by irradiation.

Keywords: Ethylene Oxide; Hydraulic Cylinder; Cyanuric Chloride; Irradiation Cell; Food Irradiation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1986
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-07455-6_19

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