Substantial water savings with fewer blockages

The exclusive UK and Eire distributor for ‘Land & Transport’ applications for a Norwegian-developed vacuum drainage technology that reportedly consumes one-sixth to one-eighth the volume of water during flushing of ‘traditional’ gravity toilets, better draws in and ‘vents away’ pathogens and odours, offers easier, less disruptive installation, and is ‘low maintenance, and less prone to blockage’, is stepping up its targeting of UK hospitals following a successful first UK healthcare installation at Truro’s Royal Cornwall Hospital. HEJ editor, Jonathan Baillie, met up with MD, Andrew Hay, and Sales/Marketing director, Nicky Brown, at Otter Vacuum Systems’ Downton headquarters near Salisbury, to find out more.

Andrew Hay began by explaining that he first came across vacuum sanitation technology some 13 years ago, when he was running a fleet of mobile toilets, principally for use at outdoor events. He explained: “Recognising that I had a good idea for a foldable portable toilet cubicle which could be transported by trailer to site, and then carried by one man to the required location, I investigated the vacuum toilet technologies then available. I knew that vacuum toilets used considerably less water than gravity toilets, and would thus better suit use in remote locations, such as in the middle of a field. After an exhaustive trawl, I concluded that the vacuum sanitation technology from Norwegian sanitary systems specialist, Jets, would best suit the range of compact mobile toilets that I had designed and developed, and which I then hired out, and subsequently also sold, to the ‘top-end’ events market.” 

Lack of a UK distributor