RECENT PRODUCT NEWS

Static Systems Group, a longestablished alarm and communication system supplier for healthcare environments, will show its Fusion-IP call and real time location system, and fire detection equipment.

Members of the Health Estate Journal editorial and advertising teams will have a joint stand with the IHEEM head office team.

Britplas, well known for its ‘multi awardwinning’ Safevent window, will show an in-house designed ‘revolutionary bedroom door’ which it says ‘addresses the key safety concerns associated with mental health settings’.

The Kingsway Group, an ‘expert’ in mental health doorsets and fittings – from individual items such as coat hooks and hand towel dispensers to full doorsets with fitted components – will be showcasing a number of new products and concepts ‘designed to minimise risk, enhance the healing environment, and provide a higher level of safety and security’.

P4 FASTEL, which manufactures ‘high performance, cost and energy-efficient emergency lighting products’, will showcase new wireless emergency lighting systems, its M-web+ fully addressable emergency lighting system, and new additions to its ‘stylish’ exit signage range.

Manufacturer of anti-ligature products and door and wall protection, Intastop, will show its new Door Top Alarm, ‘developed through consultations with a variety of customers from the mental health industry’.

ATB Secure will launch two new Taurus Max Healthcare Windows – a Horizontal Slider and an Automated Opening Window – designed specifically to meet the needs of mental health sector specifiers.

FBS Contracts, first established as a laboratory furniture company over 20 years ago, says that, having successfully diversified into the mental health sphere ‘several years ago’, it has since built up an excellent name.

ELGA Process Water has introduced a new monitoring tool to help in microbiological control of water systems. ‘Bactiquant-water’ is a simple-to-operate test system that gives a rapid indication of total viable bacteria count – a test which normally takes two or three days – in under an hour.

Beacon Medaes has developed a new emergency reserve manifold – incorporating the primary manifold header – which it says is the highest specification such unit on the market.

Pall Corporation’s QPoint tap water filter assembly, the latest addition to the company’s range of advanced point-of-use filters for protection against waterborne pathogens, offers enhanced features, improved performance, and a longer capsule life of up to two months.

In a claimed world first, it has been reported that ‘antimicrobial copper’ surfaces in a Greek hospital ICU have not only reduced contamination but, due to a ‘halo effect’, have also lowered contamination on adjacent surfaces.

Knauf Facades’ new ThermaFrame system is designed ‘to meet the thermal requirements of any construction by greatly reducing thermal transfer through the wall, and removing the need for external insulation’, making U-values as low as 0.15 W/m2K ‘easily achievable’.

Seating and tables from Knightsbridge Furniture’s specialist Challenging Behaviour Collection have been specified for the Redwoods Centre in Shrewsbury (HEJ – October 2012), a £46 m inpatient mental health facility recently opened by South Staffordshire & Shropshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust.

A planning tool designed to help customers find the right IPS system for their medical location has been launched by Brandon Medical in partnership with Esa Grimma, a ‘specialist in secure, efficient, electrical distribution and control’.

Performance doorset manufacturer, Leaderflush Shapland, can now offer ‘a highly effective’ intumescent seal option for doors – EcoGuard – that provides up to 30 and 60 minutes of fire resistance, and allows ‘an extremely clean and simple installation’.

In hospitals and other environments where there are infirm, incapacitated, and infectious people, it is highly desirable to specify a detection system that provides the earliest possible warning of fire.

Electrical safety specialist, Bender UK, is celebrating achieving the industry’s flagship standard for occupational health and safety best practice at its headquarters in Ulverston, which houses product testing facilities, and delivers sales, service, project management, and technical support.

As healthcare provision is driven by constantly changing needs and ever tighter budgets, a different approach is needed when planning for different accommodation requirements; and, Premier Interlink says, off-site construction methods ‘are fast becoming the preferred solution for hospitals and healthcare buildings’.

‘More energy-efficient steam systems’ are the promise of the new STS17.2 steam trapping station just launched by Spirax Sarco in an expansion of its Quick-Fit steam trap range.