NORTHWICH - Vaccines against COVID-19 will take some steam out of the market for hygiene products, but demand will remain above pre-pandemic levels as frequent hand-cleaning is here to stay, an executive at Ecolab, a leading firm in the sector, said on Thursday.
In the summer, it signed a deal with the NHS to supply 5 million liters of hand sanitizer, which Sam De Boo, Ecolab's President for Western Europe, said was the firm's biggest one-time customer order. "It will of course go down from these current peak levels we do believe it will be higher than 2019," De Boo told Reuters on Thursday.
Ecolab said on Thursday that two products - a hand-rub and a surface disinfectant - had been shown to be specifically effective against SARS-CoV-2 following tests in Germany.