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Cantel's New CEO Hansen on Growth: New Products, M&A (Audio) · Bloomberg Intelligence

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  Speaker 1: to taking stock with bim Box and Kathleen Hays on
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  Speaker 1: Bloombird Radio. Can't tell Medical Group of leading global company
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  Speaker 1: as a dedicad delivering innovative infection prevention products and services.
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  Speaker 1: Quite a day to day for the company, a new CEO,
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  Speaker 1: an acquisition, and a share price it's moving higher. Maybe
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  Speaker 1: that's some applause for the man who's taking the helm
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  Speaker 1: of the company today. We're very happy to introduce. Now
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  Speaker 1: you're in Hansen. He is CEO of Cantel Medical Corp.
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  Speaker 1: A company that he has worked with now for some time,
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  Speaker 1: joining us in studio to talk about the company where
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  Speaker 1: he intends to take it next and in fact where
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  Speaker 1: he's taking it today. You're and welcome to the show.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you, Kathleen. So, first of all, a little bit
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  Speaker 1: more about can Tell what you are and what you do.
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  Speaker 1: Can Tail is a company that is a completely dedicated
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  Speaker 1: to infiction prevention. Our business is driven by some of
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  Speaker 1: the major health issues in the world, including colorrectal cancer, diabetes, diabetes, obesity,
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  Speaker 1: and then the dental business. We have a range of
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  Speaker 1: products that goes into those areas and they all focused
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  Speaker 1: our own infection convention. I want to just mention that
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  Speaker 1: the shares of Cantel Medical are about two percent. Perhaps
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  Speaker 1: investors happy about your latest acquisition of acute On tell
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  Speaker 1: us how this expands your business in the dental segment.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you, pim Uh In cancerl We are focused on
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  Speaker 1: delivering full solutions that help prevent infections in the spaces
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  Speaker 1: that we operate within dental. The Acutron acquisition, which we
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  Speaker 1: are very excited about, adds another line of products single
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  Speaker 1: use nasal masks that are used in connection with conscious
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  Speaker 1: station and it's another product to our portfolio that it
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  Speaker 1: helps the dentists prevented fictions doing procedures. So your role
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  Speaker 1: now is CEO. Tell us a little bit about how
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  Speaker 1: you got into this field, How you got into this company,
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  Speaker 1: Where and when you see your company in industry heading,
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  Speaker 1: what are the opportunities. I've been in the mid device
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  Speaker 1: business now for almost twenty years at various companies in
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  Speaker 1: eurb Asia and now the US. Cancer medical is in
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  Speaker 1: a in a great space. We are, as I mentioned,
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  Speaker 1: focused on on preventing infections and prevention is theme for
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  Speaker 1: the healthcare providers all over the world. To spend a
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  Speaker 1: dollar on prevention is much better than wait for an
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  Speaker 1: infection to happen. So we feel very confident about our
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  Speaker 1: markets and I see it by future for the future
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  Speaker 1: for the company. You also have a segment that focuses
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  Speaker 1: on water purification and filtration. Tell us about that. A
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  Speaker 1: water purification of filtration business is mainly focused on hemodialysis water,
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  Speaker 1: so that is water used for hemodialysis. There's about six
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  Speaker 1: thousand five clinics in the US and about four and
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  Speaker 1: fifty procedures conducted a year, and we part take in
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  Speaker 1: about those procedures. So R and D Research and Development
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  Speaker 1: talked to us about that part of the business. What
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  Speaker 1: kind of scientists How much do you invest? Because I
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  Speaker 1: would think if you want to be a leader, and
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  Speaker 1: you want to compete, you've always got to be improving there.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely we have. We have three three growth priorities for
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  Speaker 1: the company, new product development, market expansion supported by M
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  Speaker 1: and A. In terms of R and D, we have
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  Speaker 1: a fairly large direct R and D team based out
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  Speaker 1: of our campus in Minnesota, focusing in understanding needs for
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  Speaker 1: infection prevention in the hospital and in a dental area
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  Speaker 1: in NHEM analysis, and we have launched wide rains of
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  Speaker 1: products over the last few years to supplement that. When
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  Speaker 1: we look at companies like for example, Equiton today, they
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  Speaker 1: bring new products to our back and opens up new
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  Speaker 1: opportunities for help fighting infections. We talk about fighting infections,
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  Speaker 1: A lot of that has to do with just disinfect
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  Speaker 1: and chemicals, right, tell us about that group and also
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  Speaker 1: tell us a little bit about how pernicious these kinds
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  Speaker 1: of infections can be. Yeah, we are. We are. Actually
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  Speaker 1: both are developed on the manufacture of chemical disinfections. Our
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  Speaker 1: main product is parasitic acid that is used for cleaning
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  Speaker 1: scopes and has all kinds of beneficial properties. The main
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  Speaker 1: area that might be familiar to the general public is
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  Speaker 1: that there has been issues where cleaning cols or do
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  Speaker 1: a demo scopes over the last couple of years and
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  Speaker 1: with our solutions, our equipment and our chemistry combined, we
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  Speaker 1: can completely eradicate those issues. And that's one of the
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  Speaker 1: reasons why the company is very, very busy today. Who's
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  Speaker 1: your biggest competition and where do you see the most
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  Speaker 1: potential for growth? United States, Asia, Europe. We have a
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  Speaker 1: very strong US market at the moment, driven by the
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  Speaker 1: aforementioned issues. Our main competitors are very different depending on
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  Speaker 1: what part of the world. In the US, it's mostly Olympus.
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  Speaker 1: The Olympics are manufacturer of scopes, but they also make
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  Speaker 1: various products that goes into the g I suite. In
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  Speaker 1: Europe and Asia, the competition is is quite different depending
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  Speaker 1: on each market, so we feel we have a strong
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  Speaker 1: competitive position. We are focused to our business areas. We
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  Speaker 1: get up in the morning and think about fighting infections
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  Speaker 1: in all particular area and nobody if none of our
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  Speaker 1: competitors are really doing that, they're doing a lot a
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  Speaker 1: lot of other things. So thank you very much for
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  Speaker 1: coming in and spending time with us. John Hanson, he
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  Speaker 1: is the president and the chief executive, can tell Medical Group.
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  Speaker 1: They're based in Little Falls, New Jersey. The symbol is
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  Speaker 1: c m N. The stock right now up a little
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  Speaker 1: bit more than two percent higher by a dollar thirty
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  Speaker 1: six at six thirty one. The shares are up nearly
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  Speaker 1: ten percent so far this year, and the dividend is
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  Speaker 1: about two tenths of a percent. Thank you, Kathleen. You
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  Speaker 1: think that the growth in infectious disease prevention would also
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  Speaker 1: bolster the industry of Cantel Medical, And of course this
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  Speaker 1: is a situation where hospitals cannot skimp on these kinds
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