We are delighted to welcome our new Business Development Manager, Steven Shave, to the Lubron UK team. Steven joins us from Clearwater Technology, where he worked for 15 years, gaining a wealth of sales and technical industry experience.

Legionnaires’ disease got its name following an outbreak of an illness causing severe pneumonia symptoms that occurred in a Philadelphia hotel hosting a convention of the American Legion in 1976. Contaminated water in the hotel’s cooling towers was inhaled via the air-conditioning system and led to widespread infection.

The recent concerns over the traces of Cryptosporidium found at the Franklaw water treatment works outside Preston, Lancashire, led to more than 300,000 households in the area being advised to boil drinking water.