RECENT PRODUCT NEWS

The latest addition to Bytec Medical’s range of medical carts and display mounting solutions is the new portable DeskStand. With “easy-clean features” for robust infection control, the “robust” desk stand has a standard VESA 75 or 100 mounting adapter, enabling it to hold a variety of display and monitoring equipment, touchscreen PCs, and point-of-care terminals.

Automation and display technology specialist Jayex’s new Web Media M4 multimedia and client call solution incorporates digital displays that will allow healthcare organisations to communicate visually and audibly to staff, visitors, and patients, in prime locations such as receptions, walkways, and waiting areas.

IDC’s new ZB111 wireless-based barcode scanner is designed to provide low-cost inventory management systems (IMS) in healthcare facilities.

Last month’s Ecobuild exhibition saw LG Air Conditioning & Energy Solutions show, for the first time in Europe, its new Multi V III commercial air conditioner for large facilities.

Vernacare’s Tuffie 5 multi-surface sporicidal wipe is now also available in new, lighter flexible packaging designed to reduce packaging waste by 70%, while providing further customer cost savings of up to 30% versus traditional tubs.

Measuring power consumption in a wide variety of locations is now said to be easier and quicker with the launch of k-Wattch, a portable hand-held energy monitor developed as part of the Sinergy range by Marshall-Tufflex Energy Management (MTEM).

Willbeck’s Titan bariatric chair is tested by FIRA to 50 stone (318 kg) capacity, is said to be quick and easy to clean, has fixed or drop arm options, comes with a choice of seat heights, incorporates three coats of antimicrobial wood polish, and is supplied with housekeeping wheels as standard.

Gooding Aluminium, the supplier of aluminium sheets, profiles, and extrusions, has launched a range of aluminium glazing channels known as GA “complete” shuffle and shuffle-less glazing systems, which provide a “one source” system for the framing of 10 mm, 11 mm, and 12 mm thick glass.

Safety footwear and workwear specialist Footsure has won the exclusive distribution rights for Caterpillar in England, Scotland, and Wales –

A “360° virtual booth” which allows site visitors to interact with products, and “an ideas centre” for customer feedback and suggestions for product development, are just two of several new features of Rigel Medical’s dedicated website (www.rigelmedical.com).

Essex-based independent glass processor, toughener, and laminator ESG has secured UK exclusivity to supply ESG Polyvision, which it describes as “the most advanced and largest-sized switchable privacy glass on the market”.

Manufacturer of secure vision panels, Vistamatic, has launched “a design solution” for doors requiring a full-length secure vision panel.

Oldham-based designer and engineer of “clean air” systems Medical Air Technology (MAT), and Ballymenabased designer of, and project manager for, medical facilities MET Healthcare have joined forces to provide “state-of-the art” ultra-clean operating theatres, cleanrooms, aseptic suites, and containment laboratories, across Ireland.

A new thermal enhancement of its “already thermally efficient” AA600TE series of windows and doors has been launched by architectural aluminium systems supplier Kawneer.

Miele Professional has added several new models to its professional laundry range. Features include bigger capacities and slimmer footprints, while Miele’s new heat-pump dryers reportedly deliver up to 60% savings in electricity costs.

With only a few weeks left until the new NHS budgets are available, Develop Training is offering customers the chance to get the most out of this year’s budgets with the training spend they still have available to invest before 1 April.

Upgraded pathology laboratories at Kettering General Hospital in Northamptonshire have been equipped with Marshall-Tufflex’s all-curved, Odyssey Bio antimicrobial cable containment system to enhance infection control measures within the hospital’s sterile services section.

An innovative steam boiler water treatment technology from Spirax Sarco uses reverse osmosis (RO), in a process the company says enables healthcare steam users to achieve 'a step-change' in energy efficiency.

Building energy management system (BEMS) manufacturer Trend Controls Systems and vocational training provider Apprenticeship Training (ATL) have developed, and are jointly delivering, what they say is the UK’s first ever qualification for building controls technicians.

Water savings of up to 50% are reportedly achievable using the latest extension to Douglas Delabie’s Securitherm range – new thermostatic basin and sink mixers independently BuildCert tested and certified to NHS Model Engineering Specification D08/TMV3.