Polyflor’s leading smooth vinyl range, Pearlazzo PUR, has been installed in the new Cyberknife Radiosurgery facility at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham, one of only six such facilities in the UK.
The CyberKnife is reportedly ‘the world’s first and only robotic radiosurgery system designed to treat tumours throughout the body non-invasively’. The £3 million device at the QEH was purchased via charitable fundraising activities alone, with a donation of some £1m from the Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham Charity generated from the sale of a painting by Sir Joshua Reynolds. Installed by Sheldon Flooring, Purple Crush and Lilac Bloom flooring colours were selected from Pearlazzo’s 24 colour options, to mark out the path of the machine, creating a safety zone. Pearlazzo PUR uses ‘distinctive tonal chips, and pearlescent flakes blended and fused into a solid base colour, for a distinctive decorative finish’, and features Polyflor’s ‘unique’ polyurethane reinforcement (PUR), cross-linked and UV cured for optimum strength. This PUR reinforcement, and ‘a superior closed surface finish’, reportedly facilitate ‘a lowcost, lifetime polish-free maintenance regime, achieving savings of up to 48% compared with standard vinyl flooring’.
