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Why UV-smart grew like a leaf during the corona crisis

12/1/2023

EY interviews Thijs Kea and Daan Hoek about UV Smart, and how Corona has accelerated everything.

EY interviews Thijs Kea and Daan Hoek about UV Smart, and how Corona has accelerated everything.

It was exciting for a while. Will he be back from holiday in time? Sunday, 15 March, Daan Hoek boarded a plane from his holiday address, three days later the skies closed. He had hardly been home for a few hours and the phone rang. The first hospital is on the line. "Whether we could also disinfect mouth masks. We didn't know that, of course. We made a prototype available to test whether it worked. Halfway through the week, it turned out to work. At first we thought we were going to make twelve, then twenty-five and in the end we made two hundred.

Read the whole article here for an insight into the growth of UV Smart. This article was also published in Sprout.

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