RECENT PRODUCT NEWS

SAS International’s new “Drop & Slide” suspended metal ceiling system provides a flush finish, “like many competitor systems”, but differs in its “ingenious way of allowing access to the ceiling void for essential maintenance”.

Life-safety equipment manufacturer, C-TEC, has hailed its presence at this summer’s Firex 2011 event “a huge success”; it celebrated its 30th anniversary with an extensive array of new fire alarm control panels, call systems, and power supplies.

Vizcall says the “beauty” of its Viztouch IP fully IP-based nurse call system “lies in its clean clear interface”, which is simple for both patients and staff to use.

A “tailored collection” of taps, showers, and accessories for commercial and public sector applications has been created by bringing together leading products from Bristan and Sirrus by Gummers.

Altro’s new “design-led” Suprema II is the first safety flooring range to incorporate the company’s Easyclean Maxis PUR technology, which can reportedly reduce cleaning and maintenance costs throughout the product’s lifetime by up to 60%.

The new Cable management catalogue from Marshall-Tufflex reportedly “represents the industry’s definitive and most user-friendly guide to trunking systems and prefabricated/modular wiring solutions”.

A parallel opening window said to “optimise natural ventilation without compromising security” has been launched by Kawneer.

Eastwood Park Training’s new training calendar for July 2011 to March 2012 includes several new courses “reflecting the latest industry developments, legislative changes, and HTM guidelines”.

Environmental Water Systems (UK) (EWS), the water purification and water treatment specialist, has launched a “revised” service and maintenance offering – PureCare – “in response to current market conditions, tightening budgets, and the need to look at costs”.

Ansell Healthcare’s Revised Guide to EN Standards for Gloves provides comprehensive information about the legally binding Framework Directives 89/391/EEC and 89/656/EEC, and PPE Directive 89/686/EEC.

A heavy duty electronic push-button lock that has achieved fire safety and durability testing to American National Standards Institute (ANSI) grade 1 – the highest accreditation level, confirming its robustness against heavy use, has been introduced by Codelocks.

Tarkett’s latest vinyl safety flooring range, Safetred Naturals and Wood – “developed in response to a growing trend towards more natural, organic materials and surface finishes” – offers a variety of Wood and Stone designs “inspired by nature’s subtle beauty”.

Yorkshire-based Intaview has launched a new privacy and vision control system that utilises a twin-film concept “to provide a superior performance, and offer greater vision for privacy vision panels in office partitions, windows, doors, screens, and corridors”.

Environmental Water Systems (UK) Ltd (EWS), the water purification and water treatment specialist, has launched a 'revised' service and maintenance offering – PureCare – in response, it says, to 'current market conditions, tightening budgets, and the need to look at costs'.

Healthcare steam users can find it hard to dedicate the time and in-house resources to establish comprehensive planned maintenance of specialised steam heating plant, according to one of the specialists in the field, Spirax Sarco, which argues that outsourcing some, or all, maintenance work to specialists can help users to identify, design, and implement efficiency improvements, and then maintain the resulting energy savings.

Eastwood Park Training has now launched its new training calendar for the period July 2011- March 2012; the programme includes a number of new courses reflecting the latest industry developments, legislative changes, and HTM guidelines.

Twenty-one operating theatres at the new four-storey Peterborough City Hospital, completed late last year at a cost of £289 million, and now dominating the local skyline with its 13 wards, 612 beds, and 18 operating theatres, feature clinical medical gas pendants, operating theatre lights, surgeons’ theatre control panels, and examination lights, from Starkstrom.

A new secure vision panel that “moves away from the traditional ‘straight-lines’ approach” has been introduced by Vistamatic.

Altro has added 12 new colours to its WalkwayTM 20/VM20 safety flooring range, which it says is recommended for locations “where health and safety standards and CDM regulations dictate underfoot safety”.

Real-time control of waste handling and disposal operations – including waste cost, tonnage, segregation, and diversion from landfill – is promised by national outsourced waste services provider, Reconomy, with its new “24/7” system, “Reconomy Portal”.