Monthly Archives: November 2020

When the team at the Oxford English Dictionary looked back on 2020, they decided that the year had been too momentous to just have one Word Of The Year like every other year. It needed a whole list of words because these are Unprecedented Times (although ironically ‘unprecedented’ didn’t make the list). Of course most of the words related to the pandemic – social distancing, lockdown, COVID-19, coronavirus. And who had even heard of someone being furloughed before March this year? One word that didn’t make the list, and perhaps should have is antimicrobial – something that is active against microbes. An antimicrobial “is an agent that kills microorganisms or stops their growth”. That certainly sounds like something we all need right now! Here at Hodgson Sealants hygiene properties are something that we have taken very seriously for a long … Continue reading →