RECENT PRODUCT NEWS

Vinyl flooring specialist, Polyflor, says its new Polysafe Verona PUR ‘confidently lays a major foundation for the future of the decorative safety flooring market’.

Atlas Copco’s ‘Purge-Saver’ is a new online tool that enables users to calculate the energy costs they can save by using ‘state-of-the-art purge control technology’ for Atlas Copco and BeaconMedæs medical air plant installations.

A new range of ‘hard-wearing, homogeneous’ compact vinyl offers specifiers and architects ‘an unprecedented opportunity to be creative’, its manufacturer says. Tarkett’s Premium Collection features Eclipse Premium and Primo Premium, and, the company maintains, ‘combines best-in-class performance with an array of appealing designs’.

Hygienic touchscreen operating theatre control panels from Bender UK are said to offer ‘the ultimate flexibility in terms of features and functionality’ for new and refurbishment installations within healthcare.

Traka, the key management specialist, can now integrate its systems with the G4S access control software, Symmetry, allowing the functionality of the Traka32 software to be managed through Symmetry.

Securikey’s Fire Stor fire and burglaryresistant storage cabinets have a double-walled construction incorporating a fire-resistant filling compliant with DIN 4102.

Primera Passport antiligature locksets have been purpose designed for mental healthcare applications, and to satisfy growing demand for service users to have complete control over access to, and from, their personal living space.

Codelocks has launched a digital lock that simplifies control and monitoring of door access. The CL5000AT records the use of individual access codes in an audit trail log – useful where protecting controlled assets is key, as the lock will also register incorrect code attempts.

Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust has become the UK’s first to implement a healthcare industry representative credentialing system widely used in the US to improve patient safety and infection control.

Kent-based Green Gate Access Systems has installed the UK’s first solar O&O barriers at Warwick Hospital.

Adams Rite, part of Assa Abloy Security Solutions, has worked with Kestrel Aluminium Systems to produce new thermally efficient commercial aluminium single and double doorsets, ‘suitable for high specification commercial projects’, tested to a key UK security standard.

Providing protection and safety for staff and patients in secure mental health facilities is challenging.

Trumpf Medical Systems’ new TruConnect control and training system enables mobile and stationary control of Trumpf operating theatre components, ‘offering convenient, handheld, touchscreen control of integrated devices’.

Operating theatres incorporate a host of expensive equipment that could be damaged or destroyed in the event of fire anywhere within the hospital.

In what it says is the UK’s first 3D integrated operating facility, Olympus has installed two new Endoalpha integrated operating theatres at Aberdeen Royal Infirmary (ARI), both featuring the latest Olympus Evis Exera III surgical endoscopy systems.

Fulbourn Medical has provided its turnkey project expertise by converting and remodelling an existing operating theatre and staff rest area at Sunderland Royal Hospital to a new hybrid vascular theatre.

Starkstrom has added to its product portfolio the ED/ICU (Emergency Department and Intensive Care Unit) patient equipment transfer trolley.

Current projects utilising Medical Air Technology (MAT)’s recently launched ‘revolutionary’ Eco-flow range of energyefficient, ultra-clean ventilation canopies include complete theatre renovations and upgrade programmes.

MTX says its new buildings can incorporate concrete floors, and can be designed with a design life ‘of up to 60 years’.

Karl Storz recently completed work at a new operating theatre complex at Leighton Hospital in Crewe (see also pages 34-36).