Small-Lot EO Sterilization for Startups and Low-Volume Devices

Large industrial sterilizers are built around warehouse-scale chambers and full-truckload economics. For a startup with a few dozen units, a clinical build, or a low-volume commercial device, that model is a poor fit: you wait for a slot, you may be asked to fill space you do not have, and small lots queue behind large ones.

The six-chamber, small-lot strategy

We run six 3M Steri-Vac 8XL chambers in parallel rather than one massive vessel. Right-sized chambers mean you qualify and release a cycle on the units you actually have, and multiple independent chambers mean tighter scheduling and faster release for small and mid-size lots.

Who this fits

• Startups sterilizing design-verification and clinical builds
• Low-volume commercial devices that cannot justify warehouse-scale runs
• Heat- and moisture-sensitive devices: electronics, optics, adhesives, combination products
• Programs that need biological testing and residual data without shipping samples to a third lab

Responsible EO at small scale

Small-lot does not mean cutting corners on emissions. A catalytic Abator destroys 99.9% of ethylene oxide before it leaves the building, and residuals are tested in-house to ISO 10993-7 limits. You get industrial-grade control at a scale that fits an early-stage program.

And if EO is not the right fit

Because we also run chlorine dioxide, we will tell you when CD is the better method for your device rather than forcing your product into the chamber we happen to be selling.