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After less than a year in the comfortable nest of Cleveland's Edison Technology Incubator, a company that makes products to control the spread of infection in hospitals and other medical sites has grown strong enough to fly to its own offices.
ViAtro Corp. is an incubator graduate that is projecting sales of $4 million this year, said Nick A. Deeter, the company's founder, president and chief executive officer.
"The Edison incubator was great, but we needed more room to make our products," Mr. Deeter said. ViAtro occupied about 1,000 square feet in the incubator at 11000 Cedar Ave. when it left for its 5,500-square-foot quarters on Engle Road in Middleburg Heights.
ViAtro has developed about 10 infection-control products from medical technology it licenses. Mr. Deeter says its main sellers this year will be ViraSorb, a chemical that rapidly solidifies blood and bodily fluids for easier handling and disposal, and ViraPump, a device that automatically pumps disinfectants through medical instruments.