RECENT PRODUCT NEWS

Dart Valley Systems (DVS) will exhibit new technology that further advances its hygienic, no-touch clinical handwashing solutions.

Washroom manufacturer Cubicle Systems has partnered with Twyford Bathrooms to launch a new range of HTM 64-compliant pre-plumbed ducting and panelling systems.

Professional messaging solutions, Ascom (UK) claims to have installed over 75,000 systems worldwide. It has recently launched its d41 and d62 DECT handsets, together with the latest R3 update to the Ascom IP-DECT system.

With the revision of British Standard BS 8300:2009, “Design of buildings and their approaches to meet the needs of disabled people”, hospitals and health centres are recommended to provide specialist “Changing Places”

One of the UK’s largest power and gas providers, generating and supplying energy to homes and businesses across the country, E.ON emphasises that it also has a thriving “Energy Connections” business offering “a competitive range of infrastructure, metering and supply solutions”.

ISO 9001:2000-accredited Fendor’s track record includes manufacturing and installing high security windows and glazing systems for the Broadmoor, Carstairs, and Rampton facilities.

A new “mid-length” bath “designed and developed with the modern bathing space in mind” will feature on the Gainsborough Baths stand.

WT Partnership Health Consulting now offers a new, “expert service” to healthcare organisations that need support in the production of business cases – an addition to its long-established role working with all types of healthcare Trusts in the areas of construction cost control, procurement, and facilities management.

Traka will provide information on its “cost-effective” systems for providing hospitals with a full audit of key usage, and controlling access to drugs, equipment and vehicles.

Problems associated with installing sinks in healthcare facilities are “washed away” when TEAL hot water hand wash units are used instead, the Birmingham company claims.

Static Systems Group will have two stands, one (M1) specifically dedicated to fire alarms, and the other (M27) giving visitors a “sneak preview” of a future single bed ward.

The Healthcare Facilities Consortium (HFC), in association with the British Institute of Facilities Management (BIFM), will host a “Focus on FM” area within the exhibition that will be running alongside the conference sessions.

Described as “an extremely flexible medical supply unit”, Cableflow’s “the Panel” embodies, the company says, its “experience and innovative approach to bedhead services attained over many years”.

Highlights on Horne Engineering’s stand will include a computer generated, photo-realistic animation giving a “comprehensive tour” of Horne’s new, improved range of surface mounted shower panels, a selection of which will also be shown, and the company’s award-winning Optitherm thermostatic tap.

GypWall EXTREME, a lightweight, extreme impact-resistant partition for applications where the most onerous BS5234 Severe Duty rating does not provide sufficient performance assurance, will be shown by British Gypsum.

The Institute of Healthcare Engineering and Estate Management (IHEEM) will highlight its position as the relevant learned society and professional body for all those working in healthcare engineering, estates and facilities management.

Bender UK, the manufacturer of isolated power system and surgeon’s panels, will show a new TCP/IP product in Harrogate, to complement its existing FTC470XET module, that allows Bender IPS systems to be interrogated remotely.

Information on all its pre-engineered systems, including the Spirax Sarco EasiHeat system, a popular energy-saving replacement for hospital calorifiers said to save plant room space, “virtually eliminate” maintenance downtime, and provide hot water on demand, will be available from Spirax Sarco.

Reliance Water Controls has developed a new range of thermostatic taps designed to meet the requirements of HTM 64 and thus “ideal for the healthcare washroom”.

Brandon Medical claims to be the world’s first company to launch surgical lights using what it dubs “the new innovative HD-LED technology”.