
Disinfection with peroxides
Cleaning and Sanitation
A clean, sanitary environment is essential to the proper functioning of any business — but no less important is cleaning within the home. Our hydrogen peroxide and peracetic acid are powerful disinfectants that leave no chemical residues on the environment.
Our peroxides are used as cleaning and sanitation agents in industrial and institutional applications including laundries and medicine. |

Home cleaning
Evonik offers the entire range of hydrogen peroxide formulations used in liquid detergents, auxiliary bleach, hard surface disinfectants, dishwashing applications and persalt products for bleaching requirements (sodium percarbonate and sodium perborate).
Based on its decades of experience and expertise in applied technology and production, Evonik offers tailor-made solutions with various additives, high pH-value (alkaline milieu) and required stability and properties to the challenging market - besides commonly used concentrations.

Hospital and Medical Device Hygiene
Our peracetic-acid based biocides are safe, easy to use and effective across a broad range of surfaces and materials, and we continue to develop next generation products to meet the cleaning and sanitization needs of the medical field. We’re here to make sure that your medical equipment has a clean bill of health.

Industrial cleaning
As a leading supplier of industrial cleaning chemistries, Evonik’s rosters of hydrogen peroxide and peracetic acid-based antimicrobial products are formulated to address the myriad disinfection and sanitization needs of institutional and industrial environments. From school bathrooms to restaurant dining rooms, our offerings encompass the disinfection chemistries, application techniques, and scientific expertise to keep things clean from top to toe.

Laundry
Industrial laundry operations handle hundreds of pounds of laundry, requiring cleaning agents that are able to deliver results in even the most challenging situations. Our peracetic acid formulations are a vital component of commercial laundry cleaning. Their ability to function effectively across a variety of environments improves efficiency and energy savings, while meeting disinfection and sanitization needs of consumer cleaning and sanitization operations.

Surface Disinfection
Peracetic acid is a highly effective disinfectant that is effective against a wide range of bacteria, bacterial spores, fungi and viruses such as corona virus on surfaces such as doorknobs and handrails, as well as disinfecting the surfaces of medical instruments and equipment.
Our Products
Various peracetic acid grades and several tailor-made recipes are available at Evonik under the trade name PERACLEAN®. Concentrations of up to 15 percent are used as sanitizers, disinfectants, and sterilants in the food and beverage industry, for water treatment, in laundries, and for medical applications. PERACLEAN® 15 is used for cleaning and disinfecting surfaces which are infected with the coronavirus.
VIGOROX® liquid sanitizer and disinfectant is a peracetic acid-based, EPA-approved biocide that has applications in no-rinse hard surface disinfection in the food and beverage, pulp and paper, aseptic packaging and healthcare industries.
VIGOROX® SP-15 antimicrobial agent is a formulated peracetic acid-based solution that can be used for disinfection and sanitization in commercial, institutional, and industrial operations, and in the disinfection of hard surfaces in general commercial environments. It is also used for biofouling and slime control in pulp and paper mill systems, recirculating process and cooling water systems, coating preservation, and dispersed pigment preservation.
VIGOROX® SP-15 antimicrobial agent is an easy-to-use chemistry that is EPA approved.
- VIGOROX® SP-15 antimicrobial agent
VIGOROX® SP-15 antimicrobial agent is used for biofouling and slime control and in the disinfection of hard surfaces in general commercial environments. - VIGOROX® 15/10 antimicrobial agent
VIGOROX® 15/10 antimicrobial agent is used for disinfection and sanitization in commercial, institutional and industrial operations.
OXYPURE® BIO is a highly efficient, peracetic acid-based biocide used for disinfection in the food industry, animal houses, water installations, and institutional and industrial cleaning. The product is effective at treating a broad range of microorganisms at a wide range of temperatures across a variety of industries.
OXYPURE® BIO has proven a highly efficient biocide for use in the food industry, where it can be applied for aerial disinfection and non porous surfaces, equipment, piping systems and CIP systems. It is an effective biocide for use in animal houses, equipment in contact with livestock, incubation rooms, handling and transportation equipment. The product is applied as a biocide treatment in water installations, which are frequently contaminated with legionella pneumophila, including water distribution installations, cooling water, cooling towers and air conditioning systems. For environmental use, OXYPURE® BIO can be applied as spray, nebulization, immersion or brushing to surfaces in general, walls and floors in public spaces, institutional or industrial.
- OXYPURE® BIO-5% and OXYPURE® BIO-15%
OXYPURE® BIO is used to disinfect surfaces that will be in contact with food such as fruit juice, beer or wine, as well as for disinfection of surfaces and tools used in the meat and fish industries. - OXYPURE® BIO-5-V and OXYPURE® BIO-15-V
OXYPURE® BIO V is a highly-effective, fast-acting biocide for use in animal houses, equipment in contact with livestock, incubation rooms, as well as handling and transportation equipment. It can be used in animal houses with cattle, poultry, goats, pigs, etc. - OXYPURE® BIO-5 CT-L and OXYPURE® BIO-15 CT-L
OXYPURE® BIO CT-L is a biocide for treatment of legionella pneumophila for the maintenance of cooling water related equipment. The product is applied in water installations that are frequently contaminated with legionella pneumophila, like water distribution installations, cooling water, cooling towers and air conditioning systems.