热带海洋中心本周已经达到了一个里程碑，因为它制造了第30,000台商业超紫罗兰色的灭菌器。这家英国公司一直在其50年历史的38家手工建造紫外线灭菌器。最重要的是，商业紫外线生产团队的负责人马克·利特勒基尔德（Mark Littlechild）一直在公司的家中建造它们乔利伍德设施the entire time, and has kept handwritten records of every single one!
日志中包含许多知名名称，包括早期采用者，例如美国批发商优质海洋，英国零售商Home Marine，Lynwood Aquatics，The Goldfish Bowl和Shirley Aquatics，所有这些都在38年后仍在交易。TMC’s commercial sterilizers are used by retailers, wholesalers, hatcheries, fisheries, and public aquaria all across the globe, but a few non-aquatic companies show up in the records too including computer hardware company Hewlett Packard and artist Damien Hirst who installed one on his work Lost Love, in 2000.
热带海洋中心的首席执行官布莱恩·沙夫（Brian Schaff）表示：“这是一个荣幸成为该行业的中心很多年，并证明了该团队生产的产品质量。”“在接下来的几周里，我们将庆祝那些仍在那里支持我们和我们都非常喜欢的爱好的早期顾客。”
近年来，TMC的商业紫外线灭菌器已经看到了性能的提升泰坦技术——创建一个oxidizin光催化衬里g effect on organics in the water, as well as significantly increasing lifespan and efficiency, according to its makers. Don’t think that’s the total number of UVs they’ve ever produced either, as it’s dwarfed by the number of TMC’s home aquarium UV sterilizers and garden pond UV clarifiers that have waged war on disease pathogens and unicellular algae in water for the past four decades.
