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HistoryAMB private group - 60 years working in the service of industry and the environment.

The AMB is a private family group, which was created in 1947 to design and produce special machinery for the extraction industries. Following the decline of the mining companies and the rise of the environmental sector, AMB moved into the development of new equipment and machinery to be used for recycling, recovery and processing of medical waste. The business is centered on a design office and two production workshops: mechanical and mechanical welding in one and metallic and sheet metal working in the other. AMB's experience now enables it to offer the international market innovative solutions to environmental problems. By doing this, AMB contributes to maintaining a safe, healthy environment and promoting sustainable development.

The devices exported by AMB, the « ECOSTERYL: Microwaves Disinfection Systems », use the patented process Ecosteryl to decontaminate waste from health care activities involving a risk of infection. The waste is first reduced by shredding to less than 20mm; it is then brought up to a temperature of approximately 100°C -212°F (thanks to the action of the microwaves) and held at this temperature for 1 hour in order to destroy all the micro-organisms present. At the end of this treatment, this waste is comparable to household waste and can be eliminated either by incineration or dumping in accordance with the normal methods used for household type waste.

The waste in question is waste that involves risk produced by health care activities: infectious disease, hepatology, and phthisiology departments, isolation units, surgical, obstetrics and gynecology departments, etc.

Ecosteryl is mainly intended for:

1. Medium or large hospitals or hospital conglomerates.
2. Companies specialized in gathering, transporting and treating medical waste.
3. Companies specialized in burning urban and household waste (upstream from their own incinerators).

 

Certifications

Ecosteryl hospital waste decontamination system has been certified by the Pasteur Institute of France. This worldwide known agency certifies that the shredded waste leaving the AMB’s devices is an unrecognizable decontaminated pulp (destruction rate of 6log10 = 99.9999%) that can join the household waste chain (incineration or dumping of household waste). The devices are also been stringently checked and approved by the French Conseil Supérieur d'Hygiène Publique under the auspices of the French Ministries of Health and the Environment, according to the EU circular n° 49.