Finding the right market fit with child-safe disinfectant

IT TOOK two product flops and three years before entrepreneur Alvin Tan created a surface disinfectant that turned out to be a hit with preschool operators.

Today, Tan is the founder and managing director of Sureclean, a professional cleaning company that manufactures a range of cleaning products, on top of providing cleaning and disinfection services.

The very first product he invented, however, was a “fad”, he told The Business Times.