Celebrating 90 years of building sterilizers
Did you know that Getinge’s 90-year heritage of providing world-class sterilizer equipment began with a restructuring from horseshoe calks and wind engines to steam cookers for commercial kitchens? This is the story of how the company that started out in 1904 as an agricultural manufacturer in the Swedish village of Getinge, became a global leader in the field of infection control. “Getinge started focusing on steam cookers already in the 1920s. Similarities between the products paved the way for adding sterilizers for medical equipment to the product range. The first steam