RECENT PRODUCT NEWS
Innovation on tap
Dart Valley Systems will showcase an extensive collection of healthcarefocused products, including en suite sanitaryware, taps, showers, and accessories.
‘Round-the-clock’ protection
Biomaster Antimicrobial Technology says that medical products, touch surfaces, and facilities, incorporating Biomaster additives are afforded ‘roundthe- clock protection’ against bacterial build-up from ‘harmful species’ such as MRSA, E. coli, and Legionella.
Getting the best from your engine
IPU Group designs and manufactures high quality engine starting, engine control, fuel, and oil conditioning products, for critical diesel and gas engine applications.
‘Ahead of the curve’ on the energy
Energy efficiency specialist, powerPerfector, says that, with a carbon footprint equivalent to 21 million tonnes of CO2, and a large, ‘ageing’ estate, ‘few sectors face an environmental challenge as great as healthcare’.
Looking after environments
Honeywell Building Solutions (HBS) ‘installs, maintains, and optimises, the systems that keep facilities safe, secure, comfortable, productive, and energy-efficient’.
Instant hot water for drinks and snacks
Zip Heaters (UK), which claims to be ‘the world leader’ in instant boiling water, will show its ‘energy-saving’ boiling, chilled, and instantaneous hot water, products.
Maximising the benefits of a BEMS
Visitors to the Trend Control stand will ‘discover how 84% of their healthcare estate’s energy consumption could be controlled by using a building energy management system (BEMS)’.
Taps harness copper’s anti-bacterial properties
A selection of what Pegler Yorkshire dubs ‘revolutionary’ antimicrobial copper hospital taps will be shown on the company’s stand.
Helping achieve success by managing risk
Turner & Townsend is ‘a global professional services organisation that provides consultancy, delivery, operations, and programme management services, to organisations that invest in, own, and operate assets’.
‘Light-hearted challenge’ set
A ‘light-hearted challenge’ for visitors to this year’s show has been set by Static Systems Group (SSG); one of its major stand themes will be: ‘We bet you cannot find a box that Fusion-IP doesn’t tick’.
Emergency lighting par excellence
P4, which claims to be ‘the UK’s leading company dedicated solely to producing self-testing emergency lighting and exit signs’, will showcase its new radio addressable system, its M-web + Ethernet interface and web server units, and its ‘stylish’ LED sign luminaires, and unveil its new ‘cost-effective maintenance contract service specifically for estates managers’.
Minimising scalding risks
New for 2012, Douglas Delabie’s singlelever Bioclip thermostatic mixer has been specifically designed ‘to meet two very important needs – hygiene and safety’.
Show some imagination!
“It is amazing what a little imaginative thinking can to do to change the aesthetics of an often hostile and institutionalised environment into a warmer, more welcoming, atmosphere,” says Vistamatic, a specialist vision panel supplier to both the acute and mental health sectors.
Ensuring a ‘safer exit path’
The centrepiece of a range of ‘premium performance’ fire detection and emergency lighting systems shown by Hochiki Europe will be live working demonstrations of the company’s latest ‘breakthrough’ – FIREscape+ – which integrates addressable fire detection and emergency lighting technology ‘to provide an intelligent wayfinding solution’.
Function and form balanced
Tough Furniture, a ‘specialised manufacturer of furniture for use where challenging behaviours are encountered’, says its products ‘successfully achieve the difficult balance between function and form’.
Calling all stations
Alarm Radio Monitoring (ARM) says that, while, ‘traditionally’, any failure of a hardwired nurse call system has meant ‘lengthy delays and expensive closures of wards while replacement cables are run’, with its new HTM 08-03 compliant wireless units, a new/replacement system can be easily installed ‘with the minimum of disruption and cost’.
‘Instant protection’ against waterborne contaminants
A diverse range of filtration membranes for ‘critical contamination control’ in healthcare, specifically engineered for the filtration of hospital water, respiration, parenteral therapy, general surgical applications, and blood component therapy, is offered by Pall Medical.
‘World-first’ technologies
Leading innovator’ in medical device design and manufacture, TRUMPF, says it will show its ‘world-first technologies’, on display in a ‘bespoke modular operating theatre’ (pictured), built off-site ‘in a matter of days’.
Hot water, on tap, fast and easily
Heatrae Sadia will be providing information on its new, UK-manufactured Supreme Counter Top ‘instant boiling water unit’ – designed specifically for premises with limited wall space.
Wireless’s ‘greater flexibility’
Aid Call says wireless nurse call is ‘safe, reliable and proven’, with over 3,000 systems installed nationwide, and claims such systems offer ‘fast and easy installation, at a fraction of the cost of a wired system’.
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