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We are very proud to announce, that MELAG has now officially opened its first training center outside of Germany in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The MELAG Academy Training Center was inaugurated in a festive ceremony on February 3rd, 2023, with many guests and our important partners from Southeast Asia, Australia, as well as Japan and Greater China.

The new training center will support the growing number of MELAG users in Southeast Asia and provide them with the necessary training and support to increase their level of hygiene and instrument reprocessing workflows in their practices. The academy team in Malaysia, with Area Manager Southeast Asia, Dr. Chian How Tew and Technical Manager Chee Kit Yiong, will host hygiene seminars on Infection Control for medical staff, community events and experience sharing in the medical field, and provide hands-on technical training to MELAG's partners. The center will also serve as a hub for everyone to experience the whole MELAG system solution and learn about the latest innovations in instrument reprocessing.

The opening of the MELAG Academy Training Center in Kuala Lumpur marks a milestone for MELAG to further invest in the growth in Asia and is a strong testament to the company's long-term commitment to the region, the team and its valued partners. The event starts an exciting new chapter for the company as it further expands its reach into Southeast Asia and beyond. With strong local partners and well-established relationships in the medical community, MELAG is poised to make a significant impact in the region and continue its mission of striving for a cleaner, safer, and more hygienic medical market.

At the inauguration, MELAG previewed its new Pro- and Prime-Line autoclaves, aiming at the entry- and mid-level market. Providing higher performance at lower prices, we are confident that it will reach many new customers and further establish MELAGS position as the most competitive manufacturer in the field of instrument reprocessing globally.

MELAG extends its heartfelt gratitude to all attendees of the event for their support and loyalty towards our family business. Their participation and enthusiasm is greatly appreciated and has made this event truly unforgettable. A special than you to Dr. Peter Blomeyer for his thoughtful welcome remarks.

We warmly invite everyone to the MELAG Academy Training Center in Malaysia and hope to welcome you soon to our events. We invite everyone to follow our Asia- Facebook and Instagram page to stay up-to-date about our activities in the region and events at the Training Center.

MELAG Medizintechnik GmbH & Co. KG and KaVo Dental GmbH agree on closer cooperation at the beginning of 2023. With their cooperation, MELAG and KaVo are forming a new excellence team that will additionally drive the future in instrument reprocessing with coordinated product and service offerings in order to continuously make daily work in dental practices safer, more reliable and more effective. The focus of the closer sales cooperation is, among other things, joint training for specialised trade partners as well as coordinated marketing and sales campaigns. Joint events for end customers are also planned worldwide. Stronger mutual support is also planned for the future in the area of research and development.

Mission completed: after 3 years of hard work and great team effort the major project of a completely new decontamination room in the Sunraysia Community Health Services Group in Victoria, Australia was successfully completed!

Together with the management, technicians and architects the MELAG sales team at Device Technologies facilitated the complete redesign and renovation of the reprocessing area to improve and better provide for the successful processing from decontamination and sterilisation to the patient side and to ensure best reprocessing quality.

Working very closely with the client to ensure the right outcome could be delivered with the best possible customer experience, the project involved the removal of all the existing equipment and replacing it with MELAG equipment which consists of:

• 3 x MELAtherm 10 Washer Disinfectors with 3 x MELAdem 53 Demineraliser systems
• 2 x MELAseal Pro
• 2 x Cliniclave 45MD with MELAprint60
• 1 x MELAtrace with MELAprint 60

The installation and validation of the devices was a two week install and after hours and days of project management, extensive product introductions and pre and post installation trainings the staff were well equipped to start operation of the CSSD space.

We congratulate all participants for this great success and especially want to thank Ian Hopkins and Alison Walker from Device Technologies as well as the Sunraysia Community Health Services Group for the effort and great confidence in our products! This project has been the largest (in scale) to date for the direct sales team in Australia and one that all involved can be very proud of!

Follow us now & win MELAtrace: MELAG on social media!

Instrument reprocessing is a dry subject with boring standards and guidelines? Not with us! We love to inform, entertain and inspire you on social media.

But that's not all: In order to scroll through your digital decontamination rooms even more frequently in the future, we are now launching an attractive contest! MELAG will select the "decontamination room of the month" from all tagged posts and, in addition to free chamber cleaning sets, will give away as the main prize a MELAtrace incl. installation and Instruction!

The software solution, worth €1,058, guarantees tamper-proof documentation, approval and traceability of the entire reprocessing process without annual license or signature fees.

And here's how easy it is to enter the contest:

1. take a creative photo or short video, in the reprocessing room.

2. publish your content as a post or story on Instagram and tag @melag_medizintechnik 

3. on 3/15/2022, the lucky winners will be announced on MELAG's Story and notified via private message

700,000 happy customers. 70 years. There for you 7 days a week!

Since the birth of MELAG in 1951, we have been focusing the clear goal of providing the highest level of patient and instrument protection for practices and clinics. Every day and worldwide.

Today, 70 years later, as an owner-managed family business in its 3rd generation, we are still showing what it means to set new standards and develop innovative solutions for systematic processing.

Your satisfaction is our claim: To ensure that you can rely 100% on Careclave, we focus on intensive quality testing!

In specially developed test stations, Careclave was tested with the most difficult test soiling in an endurance run with over 40,000 cycles - everything to make things work for you!

These endurance runs confirm our high standards of reliability and reprocessing results - and have been doing so since 2019! This year, various test practices have already integrated the Careclave into their everyday work and have been using it daily ever since.

In order to also ensure the function of your instruments in the long term, we also work together with an independent expert. This expert tested the transmission instruments of our Careclave test practices and clearly established that the instruments reprocessed with Careclave are in excellent condition!

For maximum instrument protection that dental practices love!

Especially in these times of COVID-19  it’s our main priority to share our expertise in infection control.

In order to enhance instrument reprocessing worldwide, we opened our brand-new MELAGAcademy in Kuala Lumpur. Our hygiene experts will arrange training courses and events regarding latest trends and standards in instrument reprocessing. To these events we sincerely invite customers and partners from all over Southeast Asia.

Recently we successfully completed our first training with representatives of the health ministry and regional clinics. Besides technical trainings we also demonstrated the idea of an aligned workflow in spatially-limited decontamination rooms by using the MELAG System Solution.

Thank you to all the attendees for participating. We are looking forward to welcoming you in our training center soon!

Hygiene Expert Dr Silvan Meier will present tips and tricks for safe instrument decontamination during the Covid-19 pandemic.

Many thanks to all partners, practices and clinics who, despite the numerous challenges, are there for those needing your help: Your Patients.

Extraordinary times require extraordinary cooperation. Our hygiene experts will remain by your side. Together with our digital tools, we provide the best possible support for all questions and concerns regarding instrument decontamination and infection control:

Congratulations to Ian Hopkins, MELAG Product Manager for Biomedex, who recently travelled to Papua New Guinea to complete the installation of a MELAG Cliniclave 45 steriliser in a brand new hospital.

Funded by the Australian Government, the new hospital was built to prevent people with tuberculosis travelling to Australia to be treated for the disease. Currently, many TB patients in Papua New Guinea travel to the Australian Torres Strait Islands and Thursday Island for treatment, which increases the risk of TB transmission in Australia.

A trip to Papua New Guinea

Having previously installed the same steriliser on a remote Solomon Island, Ian Hopkins was ready for this PNG adventure. “At first I was told that the area was so remote, you had to travel up a crocodile infested river to get there, and that the mosquitoes were unbearable,” Ian said. “It turned out not to be quite like that, but I did have to take all my own bedding, food, tools and toiletries in a backpack – this wasn’t a suitcase-with-wheels trip!”

Upon arriving in Port Moresby, Ian was greeted by his guide, a local biomedical engineer, who accompanied him by light plane to nearby Daru Island. “We had to stay overnight on Daru because the sea was too rough to get back to the mainland where the hospital is,” Ian said. “But next morning we headed off on a pleasant boat trip; the sea was so smooth that it took about half the time it usually does!”

Getting the job done

The pair alighted onto a jetty made out of pallets and helped to unload the boat. “It’s all hands on deck here,” Ian said. “It was much like any building site, except working to a PNG agenda and pace.”

With power and water drainage not ready for the Cliniclave installation, Ian’s first job was to find the builder and plead his case. With only two days at the hospital, timing was important. “By the second afternoon the unit was running with the German efficiency we expect from MELAG,” Ian said. “I completed the test cycles, checked services and the job was complete.”

The adventure is not over yet

After one last night at the hospital, Ian prepared to make his way first by boat back to Daru, then by plane to Port Moresby. “Lining up flights that rarely run on time with booking boat rides with locals quickly becomes a test of patience,” Ian said. “You have to rely on locals finding you a hotel on Daru – which don’t exist on Google!”

Looking to the future

Making the effort to travel to this remote location and personally install the Cliniclave 45 puts Biomedex in good stead to become a preferred supplier for upcoming projects – which Ian has been promised are not so remote! “The local Rural Health officials were impressed and informed me there are a further six projects in planning,” Ian said. “Although they will likely be easier to get to, we’re looking to train the biomedical engineer I travelled with so we have a local specialist there too.”

Don’t count Ian out of the travel though, although it was tough – and took six days to complete what would usually be a one-day job – the experience was worth it. “Seeing how local villagers live and work makes me appreciate what I have,” he said. “The mosquitoes are horrendous, food is whatever you can carry and living is very basic, but what a great trip.”

With the investment in the new MELAG Skywalks we secure the long-term future of our production site in Berlin.

For improved networking and logistics we are investing in the future expanding our production site. Two Skywalks were installed - discover the fascinating installation process in our time-lapse video:

MELAtherm 10 Evolution: the new MELAG washer disinfector impresses with a large Smart-Touch Display and innovative product features. What provides the Smart-Touch Display and what are the advantages the new MELAG washer disinfector "has in stock"?

We at MELAG work continually to ensure that medical and dental practices can choose from the best and most innovative products to guarantee easy-to-use hygiene system solutions providing total security. AquaBoost performs double the rinse pressure and up to 44 % better cleaning outcomes. The increased rinse pressure permits the decontamination of even more instruments: the treatment of 23 handpieces and sufficient instruments for up to 40 patients in only 60 minutes! Not only is the Smart-Touch Display especially large, it also offers many innovative features and a highly user-friendly intuitive operating interface. Even helpful video tutorials can be viewed in brilliant quality. In addition to proven product highlights such as active drying, feeding process agents, documentation - integrated at no extra cost - MELAtherm 10 Evolution now scores with the batch release ProControl. Staff can perform fast and paperless batch approval directly on the device. This optimizes the workflow considerably.

With even more cleaning performance, easy trend-setting multimedia operation of MELAtherm 10 Evolution, we set the benchmark for automatic instrument decontamination.

✓ Large Smart-Touch Display including video tutorials
✓ AquaBoost technology providing 44 % enhanced instrument cleaning
✓ Active interior and exterior drying
✓ Batch approval directly on the device with ProControl
✓ MELAconnect App - access the device status and program progress via the mobile app
✓ Feeding process agents with the dosing unit without any additional charge
✓ Batch documentation with CF card or network