RECENT PRODUCT NEWS

Eastwood Park Training’s new training calendar for July 2011 to March 2012 includes several new courses “reflecting the latest industry developments, legislative changes, and HTM guidelines”.

Environmental Water Systems (UK) (EWS), the water purification and water treatment specialist, has launched a “revised” service and maintenance offering – PureCare – “in response to current market conditions, tightening budgets, and the need to look at costs”.

Ansell Healthcare’s Revised Guide to EN Standards for Gloves provides comprehensive information about the legally binding Framework Directives 89/391/EEC and 89/656/EEC, and PPE Directive 89/686/EEC.

A heavy duty electronic push-button lock that has achieved fire safety and durability testing to American National Standards Institute (ANSI) grade 1 – the highest accreditation level, confirming its robustness against heavy use, has been introduced by Codelocks.

Tarkett’s latest vinyl safety flooring range, Safetred Naturals and Wood – “developed in response to a growing trend towards more natural, organic materials and surface finishes” – offers a variety of Wood and Stone designs “inspired by nature’s subtle beauty”.

Yorkshire-based Intaview has launched a new privacy and vision control system that utilises a twin-film concept “to provide a superior performance, and offer greater vision for privacy vision panels in office partitions, windows, doors, screens, and corridors”.

Environmental Water Systems (UK) Ltd (EWS), the water purification and water treatment specialist, has launched a 'revised' service and maintenance offering – PureCare – in response, it says, to 'current market conditions, tightening budgets, and the need to look at costs'.

Healthcare steam users can find it hard to dedicate the time and in-house resources to establish comprehensive planned maintenance of specialised steam heating plant, according to one of the specialists in the field, Spirax Sarco, which argues that outsourcing some, or all, maintenance work to specialists can help users to identify, design, and implement efficiency improvements, and then maintain the resulting energy savings.

Eastwood Park Training has now launched its new training calendar for the period July 2011- March 2012; the programme includes a number of new courses reflecting the latest industry developments, legislative changes, and HTM guidelines.

Twenty-one operating theatres at the new four-storey Peterborough City Hospital, completed late last year at a cost of £289 million, and now dominating the local skyline with its 13 wards, 612 beds, and 18 operating theatres, feature clinical medical gas pendants, operating theatre lights, surgeons’ theatre control panels, and examination lights, from Starkstrom.

A new secure vision panel that “moves away from the traditional ‘straight-lines’ approach” has been introduced by Vistamatic.

Altro has added 12 new colours to its WalkwayTM 20/VM20 safety flooring range, which it says is recommended for locations “where health and safety standards and CDM regulations dictate underfoot safety”.

Real-time control of waste handling and disposal operations – including waste cost, tonnage, segregation, and diversion from landfill – is promised by national outsourced waste services provider, Reconomy, with its new “24/7” system, “Reconomy Portal”.

Quick, accurate assessment of ambient airborne levels of fibrous hazards, in particular asbestos and other man-made mineral fibres, during strip-out and refurbishment of buildings, is now possible with the Harley Scientific Fibrecheck from electronic asbestos counter manufacturer, SMH Products.

Diversey’s new TASKI swingo 4000 scrubber drier is a high performance battery powered ride-on floor care machine designed for cleaning large areas quickly and efficiently. “Ideal for round-the-clock cleaning”, it is the largest TASKI by Diversey scrubber drier. “

Specialist in medical lighting, Brandon Medical, infection prevention product manufacturer, Vernacare, and auctioneer, Hilditch, were among healthcare sector companies to recently be recognised with 2011 Queen’s Awards for Enterprise.

Facilities managers keen to know instantly which equipment in their hospital has developed a fault now have a potential solution with Starkstrom’s new REMOS REmote MOnitoring System, which links equipment via one analogue phone line site, and notifies designated staff members of problems such as blown lamps, low batteries in fire alarms, malfunctioning UPS equipment, and dirty HEPA filters in ultraclean canopies etc.

An upgraded version of its fully sealed Wyki battery-powered wireless keyboard, designed for use with its hospital “smart terminals” for patient bedside applications, with a larger mouse pad, a numeric keypad, an improved tactile feel, and a longer wireless range, has been introduced by JAOtech.

The Wandsworth Group has appointed Gary Stevens as its new managing director.

Marshall-Tufflex Energy Management’s new “industry-first” Buyers’ Guide to Voltage Optimisation is “an unbiased reference point aimed at anyone considering investing in voltage optimisation, to equip specifiers and end users with information, questions, and prompts, to ensure they make the right decisions during the specification process”.