RECENT PRODUCT NEWS

An “intelligent” window control package that can be fully integrated within its building energy management systems to maximise natural ventilation’s benefits has been introduced by Trend Control Systems.

Many hospitals are already enjoying significant energy savings by swapping old hot water storage systems for technology that delivers hot water on demand. Spirax Sarco says its EasiHeat system can typically cut energy use by 6-10 %, while also freeing up valuable maintenance time, and being eligible for Government funding.

According to Starkstrom, MRI (magnetic resonance imaging) is 'arguably the greatest advance in diagnostic medical techniques to have taken place in the last century'.

Portable computing and data collection hardware specialist Socket Mobile says that, with the discontinuation of the popular Hewlett-Packard HP iPAQ 200 PDA, a device widely used in healthcare facilities for functions such as transmitting patient records and data to colleagues, and paging.

BeaconMedæs and Atlas Copco have jointly developed what they claim is “the market’s highest specification medical air plant” – mAir, incorporating the new dMED Dryer System, GA-MED VSD compressor, and ES-MED Controller.

Douglas Delabie’s latest electronic wall-mounted tap features a BIOCLIP spout with fixed and removable options for mounting on panels under 20 mm thick. The spout is easily removed for disinfection.

A Next Control Systems monitoring system, one of the largest “packages” supplied by the company yet, is being installed across several facilities run by one of London’s leading private hospital groups.

C-TEC has launched a “universal” antibacterial wipe-clean pull cord pack. The NCP-13 contains two triangular bangles, a red fixing “bullet”, and three metres of “a revolutionary red vinylencapsulated cord with integral properties to help fight spread of infections such as MRSA, E. coli, C. difficile, S. aureus, and norovirus”.

Fire detection and emergency lighting system specialist, Hochiki Europe, has published a free A6-sized guide to BS5266, the code of practice for emergency lighting.

Connexion2 is now offering a free-touse product designed to improve upon traditional “Buddy”or call-back systems that it says enables effective colleague-to-colleague communication via a website.

With lasers well established in many areas of medicine and surgery, many healthcare facilities now use laser interlock systems to ensure automatic laser beam shut-off if safety doors, covers, or blinds, are opened in, say, an operating theatre environment.

ARM says hospitals fitting its new HTM-compliant wireless nurse call units will benefit from fast installation, “with minimal dust and disruption to the ward”, while stressing that such radio-based equipment offers “unlimited flexibility to modify and extend a system”

Zip Heaters has expanded its Hydroboil Plus on-wall boiling water system range to offer larger capacities of up to 40 litres. The new 10, 15, 25, and 40 litre units “offer users of larger capacity instant boiling water systems the energy-saving advantages associated with the existing Hydroboil Plus range”.

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.