Product Developments 27 Blood bank contract is a first for SMI
ONE OF BRITAIN’S leading thermal insulation specialists has expanded into the pharmaceutical sector after signing a contract with the NHS Blood and Transplant Centre. Seymour Manufacturing International (SMI) is supplying its Cold Stop curtains to the centre’s headquarters in Bristol. The contract has already been extended on the back of impressive energy-saving results, and marks a new chapter for SMI, famed for its revolutionary Tempro insulation material.
The NHS Blood and Transplant Service provides a safe and reliable supply of blood components, diagnostic services and stem cell services to hospitals in England and North Wales, along with tissues and solid organs.
The Cold Stop curtains are an alternative to plastic strip curtains or PVC doors used in many coldrooms, with the capacity to save up to 33% on energy bills. Nick Hawker, estates and facilities manager at the company’s headquarters in Bristol, said: “We initially installed one of SMI’s Cold Stop curtains on a trial, and it seems to have worked really, really well. “So much so, in fact, that we have recently placed an order for another 12
curtain sets. Not only are these curtains helping us to save energy, they are also far more practical.
“Before, we had PVC swing doors installed, and they were very hard to open for our staff, and not practical for people who would usually be pushing trolleys or carrying blood bags. The SMI curtains remove all of this inconvenience, are saving us money on energy bills, and saving us time.”
SMI’s chairman, Brian Seymour, said: “This is certainly an exciting new direction
for our company – the first real move into the pharmaceutical sector. The results which the Cold Stop curtains have had in the blood storage and plasma manufacturing unit at Bristol have been very satisfying.
“We hope, on the back of this, that we could roll out the same kind of equipment to blood banks nationwide. Every city in the UK has one, and as the products have proved to save money at Bristol, there is nothing to suggest they could not replicate this everywhere.”
Armacell
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ACR News July 2014
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