New Product Will Save Lives
Drinking water that looks clean may still contain bugs (虫子), which can
cause illness. A small company called Genera Technologies has produced a testing
method in three stages, which shows whether water is safe. The new test shows if
water needs chemicals added to it, to destroy anything harmful. It was invented
by scientist Dr. Adrian Patton, who started Genera five years ago. He and his
employees have developed the test together with a British water
company. Andy Headland, Genera’s marketing director, recently
presented the test at a conference in the USA and forecast good American sales
for it. Genera has already sold 11 of its tests at $42,500 a time in the U.K.
and has a further four on order. It expects to sell another 25 tests before the
end of March. The company says it is the only test in the U.K. to be approved by
the government. Genera was formed five years ago and until
October last year had only five employees; it now employs 14. Mr. Headland
believes that the company should make around $19 million by the end of the year
in the U.K. alone. Genera has increased the number of its employees recently.