RECENT PRODUCT NEWS

A selection of what Pegler Yorkshire dubs ‘revolutionary’ antimicrobial copper hospital taps will be shown on the company’s stand.

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’.

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’.

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’.

New for 2012, Douglas Delabie’s singlelever Bioclip thermostatic mixer has been specifically designed ‘to meet two very important needs – hygiene and safety’.

“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.

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’.

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’.

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’.

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.

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’.

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.

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’.

Loxos, which supplies a wide range of range of nappy changing, child bathing, and clinical assessment stations, for environments such as maternity and neo-natal units and paediatric wards, says that not only can the units be tailored to each customer’s needs, but they can also be incorporate ‘striking and inventive designs’, and be produced in a broad range of colours, to ‘soften the look’ of a clinical area, and ‘fit’ with ward designs.

Earlier this year specialist manufacturer of isolated power supply (IPS) systems and theatre control panels, Bender UK, became sole UK distributor for Steris surgical products, and the newly formed partnership is ‘already proving a success’.

Already providing energy services to 5,570 hospitals across 40 countries, Dalkia claims to be ‘the market-leader for energy efficiency projects that provide savings on operational costs and reductions in CO2’.

A new scheme, SP 205, for companies ‘large and small’ that provide life safety fire risk assessment (SP205), has been launched by BAFE, the independent registration body for companies that have achieved third party quality certification of their fire protection services.

First-time exhibitor, Assa Abloy, will showcase a ‘host of door opening solutions’ at this year’s Healthcare Estates, demonstrating how its products can ‘address issues such as infection control, accessibility, and security’.

Furniture, fixtures, and fittings, for the recently completed £276 m South West Acute Hospital in Enniskillen, Northern Ireland’s first NHS hospital with 100% single patient bedrooms, were manufactured and installed by Deanestor.

Numatic International, offering a comprehensive range of cleaning and janitorial systems specifically tailored to healthcare use, can provide ‘the complete package’, including wet or dry vacuums, floor care products/systems, and janitorial trolleys.