Nanosonics to add “over 100 new direct jobs” by June 2024

Infection prevention specialist Nanosonics is on track to more than double its manufacturing capacity and add a significant number of employees over the next three years, according to a statement from the NSW government.

In an announcement promoting the government’s Jobs Plus Program, premier Dominic Perrottet said support for Nanosonics had helped “drive the company’s international expansion,” and “will create over 100 new direct jobs and support over 300 new indirect jobs by June 2024.”

Nanosonics is an ASX-listed maker of infection control products and software, and a previous winner of the award for the state’s top exporter. The company’s automated trophon machines use ultrasonic vibration to clean ultrasound probes to a high standard, coating them with a fine mist of hydrogen peroxide. Such probes are used in an estimated 150 surgical procedures. 

“Nanosonics has reached an exciting phase in its global growth trajectory and this support will help take our manufacturing capacity, as well as important R&D, to a new level of operation,” said CEO Michael Kavanagh.

“The business continues to expand its Nanosonics’ trophon disinfection franchise internationally and has recently launched a new digital compliance and traceability platform in infection prevention.”

According to the release, Nanosonics’ new facility would see an increase in R&D, with new laboratories “to support further innovation in infection prevention.”

The company’s focus is on compliance and traceability, environmental detection, instrument cleaning, instrument disinfection and storage solutions. It is part of a collaborative project with Novapharm Research and the University of New South Wales to detect decontamination in health care facilities, which received a $2.9 million CRC Project grant in September.

The value of support through the state’s Jobs Plus Program was not given. The program offers assistance through “payroll tax relief, streamlined planning approval, and subsidised training programs,” as well as free or subsidised government facilities.

Nanosonics was established in 2001 and listed on the ASX in 2007. 

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