RECENT PRODUCT NEWS

Zip claims to have ‘invented’ instant boiling water in the 1980s, and says it ‘maintains world leadership’ in boiling water provision for hot drinks in the workplace.

ASSA ABLOY Security Solutions will showcase ‘a host of door opening solutions’ suitable for healthcare buildings that it says ‘address convenience, hygiene, and fire safety’.

Over the past 12 years, Midland Corrosion Services says it has investigated numerous corrosion failures in closed heating and cooling systems in buildings including hospitals and healthcare premises, which it says ‘have resulted in expensive damages, repairs, and widespread disruption’.

Already ‘trusted by over 100 NHS hospitals and 6,100 healthcare facilities worldwide’, Dalkia, ‘the proven leader for reliable energy efficiency projects that guarantee savings on operational costs, and reductions in CO2’, will show its latest solutions for reducing carbon emissions and ‘delivering energy security’ for hospitals.

Eric Wright Group has unveiled an integrated estates service ‘designed to meet the changing needs of the NHS’.

On show for the first time on the Static Systems stand will be ‘Ventura’ (pictured), the company’s new horizontal bedhead services trunking solution, ‘designed for the modern healthcare environment’, and based around modular build.

ARDEX, which manufactures high performance tiling and flooring products and systems (photo shows Ardex flooring in the new Institute of Transplantation at the Freeman Hospital, Newcastle), has developed a range of products specifically designed for fast-track installations that ‘minimise downtime and disruption, and ensure a perfect finish every time’.

The 08 system from wireless nurse call system specialist, Courtney-Thorne, which will be demonstrated in Manchester, incorporates touchscreen technology featuring ‘instant on-screen’ call message, with a locating facility via ‘unique on screen mapping’, and a call hierarchy that gives emergency calls ‘absolute priority’.

A range of single-use water filters that includes cartridges, shower heads, and spouts, will be shown by specialist in sanitary equipment, Delabie. Each Biofil filter has a hollow fibre membrane with a filtration threshold of 0.1 micron, absolute rated, ‘delivering microorganism-free water without changing the water’s chemical composition’.

Recent innovations from Medical Air Technology (MAT), which provides clean air technology for the healthcare, manufacturing, and laboratory sectors, include its Screenless UCVS Freeflow ultra-clean ventilation system, ‘setting a new benchmark for the modern operating theatre’.

Showcased by Apollo Fire Detectors will be its ‘world-class’ Discovery range of fire detection products.

Exhibiting its Panaway & SOLO units, Haigh is an established name in the manufacture, supply, and service, of macerators for hospitals worldwide.

Rochdale-headquartered Medical Gas Services says that, cumulatively, its specialist employees have over 150 years’ experience with medical gas pipeline and cylinder installations.

A doortop alarm developed to prevent attempted suicide from the tops of doors in mental health wards and similar settings will be a key focus on the Intastop stand. Intastop said of the system:

Eplus Global, which will share its stand with Multishower, provides ‘total services for Legionella and Pseudomonas control’.

Thorlux Lighting says customers can potentially reduce their energy costs by 75 per cent by using its luminaires and lighting control systems.

Fendor claims to have firmly established itself as the ‘go-to market leader’ in specialist fenestration products, having secured work in the refurbishment of all four UK high secure mental health hospitals, and ‘countless’ medium and low secure units.

Pointing out that healthcareassociated infections (HCAIs) resulting from medical care or treatment in hospitals, nursing homes, or even patients’ own homes, are estimated to cost the NHS approximately £1 billion, Biomaster will exhibit its ‘antimicrobial additive technology for hygiene-critical environments’.

Medical refurbishment specialist, Devon Medical Turnkey Solutions, will be exhibiting for the first time. The building division of medical equipment specialist Devon Medical undertakes ‘anything from small room alterations, to large new builds with complex CT and MRI suite design’.

Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and Eurostar are among recent customers of FirePro, a specialist in modular fire suppression products and control systems.