RECENT PRODUCT NEWS

Mile End Hospital, part of the Barts Health NHS Trust, is the UK’s first hospital to use Cheetah, a demand- controlled ventilation system from energy management specialist, Quintex, in its kitchen.

Technal says that, following extensive independent testing, its new SOLEAL high performance door, specifically developed for areas of heavy use, now meets the PAS 24 standard for enhanced security.

Manufacturer of standalone access control products, Codelocks, now offers fire kit packs – available to order online immediately – for its mechanical and electronic latch locks that, when fitted, enable the locks to be installed on 30- or 60-minute fire- rated doors.

Designing an environment to protect vulnerable young people with mental health needs, with a calming and rehabilitating feel requires, thoughtful, considered design.

Door hinges, and small fingers getting trapped in them, continue to pose a health and safety issue in many sectors.

Assa says its SMARTair wireless access control system is proving a popular specifier choice, ‘providing cost-effective door management without the associated complexity’.

A new version of the company’s ‘safe- door system’ for mental healthcare applications, that allows doorsets to be replaced within two hours – developed following customer feedback about the cost and disruption of decanting service-users for doorset replacement – has been introduced by Safehinge.

Products from UK architectural aluminium systems supplier, Kawneer, are now available through bimstore.

Manufacturer of automatic and industrial doors, Gilgen Door Systems, is rolling out a new fleet of service vehicles which it says should deliver enhanced service response to customers’ door maintenance and repair needs UK-wide.

Britplas’s Safevent window has been fitted throughout The Green Mountain Psychiatric Care Center, a new eight- bedded Level 1 inpatient psychiatric unit in Morrisville, Vermont.

Polar Healthcare Windows launched a new link-sash window as part of its specialised ligature reduction range at last month’s Healthcare Estates event.

BeaconMedæs and Atlas Copco have jointly developed a new full range of oil-free medical compressors, via which they say users can be ‘guaranteed elimination of all traces of oil’ in their medical air.

Clever and innovative new design touches and cost effective construction feature strongly in the development of ‘Ventura’, Static Systems’ latest bedhead services trunking system.

Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust (WUTH) consists of five main sites and runs a wide range of services mainly from Arrowe Park and Clatterbridge hospitals. Recently, they chose Apollo-FM as their new Computer Aided Facilities Management system and already claim to be seeing the benefits of their choice, including saving money and having access to information in real-time.

Laser, a central purchasing body wholly- owned by Kent County Council (KCC), is now offering NHS Trusts UK-wide ‘an alternative end-to-end energy procurement and management service’.

danfloor, a leading manufacturer and supplier of healthcare carpets, will showcase its new Economix range, ‘a practical, yet stylish flooring solution’ for healthcare environments that it says combines ‘performance features’ – including an anti-microbial coating and an impervious membrane – with the ‘latest trend’ colours

A first-time exhibitor last year, Polar Healthcare Windows says it has been following up leads from the show ever since, ‘proof of its exhibition success’, and the ‘impressive performance’ of its products and systems.

Specialised ventilation solutions and laboratory furniture for hospitals, healthcare units, operating theatres, and healthcare premises, complemented by a full range of furniture for the healthcare and laboratory markets, are offered by Interfurn UK Medical Systems.

Exhibiting in Manchester this year, Eurobond Laminates has provided Rockspan external wall panels for the new Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital in Cramlington, designed by Keppie Architects.

To simplify maintenance and repairs for facilities managers, all Reliance Water Controls TMV3- approved single-handle taps and showers now incorporate the same thermostatic cartridge technology.