RECENT PRODUCT NEWS

An increasing number of hospitals and private clinics are selecting Bender’s ATICS to safeguard vital power supplies and protect patients in critical care facilities, the company says.

Professor Hans-Curt Flemming, from the University of Duisburg-Essen’s Biofilm Centre, (who spoke at a recent Pall Medical-sponsored conference in Liverpool on reducing waterborne infections in healthcare facilities – see pages 31-35), reports that approximately 95% of a water system’s total biomass is attached to its walls – ‘irrespective of the pipe materials used’.

Visitors to the Manhattan Atrium stand can see how the Atrium Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) software suite can help optimise the NHS estate ‘by addressing both strategic asset investment planning and day-to-day operational asset management’.

As ‘a market-leading provider of infection prevention products and solutions’, Vernacare will showcase its latest innovations, including its new, ‘easy-clean’ commode chair and Vortex pulp disposal unit (pictured).

‘Renowned as the combustion experts in all things associated with commercial and industrial heat generating plant’, SAACKE is also an ‘expert’ in firing gaseous and liquid wastes, biogas and fumes, ‘together with modernisation of existing equipment to reduce energy use, improve efficiency, save fuel, and reduce emissions’.

The experts at Rada have revealed that they are to preview a ‘redefining technology’ in healthcare taps and showers.

Wilo, which supplies products and technology for heating and air-conditioning, water supply, drainage and sewage, and industrial processes such as food manufacture, describes its Wilo-Stratos GIGA high efficiency inline pump as ‘the solution for optimising the cost of heating, cold water, and cooling systems, in industry and buildings’.

Vinyl flooring specialist, Polyflor, says its new Polysafe Verona PUR ‘confidently lays a major foundation for the future of the decorative safety flooring market’.

Atlas Copco’s ‘Purge-Saver’ is a new online tool that enables users to calculate the energy costs they can save by using ‘state-of-the-art purge control technology’ for Atlas Copco and BeaconMedæs medical air plant installations.

A new range of ‘hard-wearing, homogeneous’ compact vinyl offers specifiers and architects ‘an unprecedented opportunity to be creative’, its manufacturer says. Tarkett’s Premium Collection features Eclipse Premium and Primo Premium, and, the company maintains, ‘combines best-in-class performance with an array of appealing designs’.

Hygienic touchscreen operating theatre control panels from Bender UK are said to offer ‘the ultimate flexibility in terms of features and functionality’ for new and refurbishment installations within healthcare.

Traka, the key management specialist, can now integrate its systems with the G4S access control software, Symmetry, allowing the functionality of the Traka32 software to be managed through Symmetry.

Securikey’s Fire Stor fire and burglaryresistant storage cabinets have a double-walled construction incorporating a fire-resistant filling compliant with DIN 4102.

Primera Passport antiligature locksets have been purpose designed for mental healthcare applications, and to satisfy growing demand for service users to have complete control over access to, and from, their personal living space.

Codelocks has launched a digital lock that simplifies control and monitoring of door access. The CL5000AT records the use of individual access codes in an audit trail log – useful where protecting controlled assets is key, as the lock will also register incorrect code attempts.

Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust has become the UK’s first to implement a healthcare industry representative credentialing system widely used in the US to improve patient safety and infection control.

Kent-based Green Gate Access Systems has installed the UK’s first solar O&O barriers at Warwick Hospital.

Adams Rite, part of Assa Abloy Security Solutions, has worked with Kestrel Aluminium Systems to produce new thermally efficient commercial aluminium single and double doorsets, ‘suitable for high specification commercial projects’, tested to a key UK security standard.

Providing protection and safety for staff and patients in secure mental health facilities is challenging.

Trumpf Medical Systems’ new TruConnect control and training system enables mobile and stationary control of Trumpf operating theatre components, ‘offering convenient, handheld, touchscreen control of integrated devices’.