Health Sector News Pegler’s £5m investment


Pegler Yorkshire, the plumbing and heating manufacturer, has invested over £5 million at its two Yorkshire sites to double production capacity to accommodate expected demand for its range of metal push-fit fittings. Its Leeds site has received a £2.8 m


investment, and its Doncaster factory, £2.5 m. The investment has been made in new presses and related machinery for producing components for plumbing systems, thermostatic mixing, and engineering valves. Phill Jackson, marketing and


business development director, Pegler Yorkshire, said: “Recent reports have highlighted a rise in UK manufacturing output – a good indicator for sustained recovery in our sector. Yet it would be difficult for this to continue if UK manufacturers do not continue to push the boundaries of innovation, target additional markets, and


News in brief Hydraulic stamping presses at Doncaster.


ultimately invest in their own businesses.” The company has installed four hydraulic


stamping presses, automatic bar saw, and shotblast machines for finishing forged product at its Doncaster site, and in Leeds, a dedicated Tectite cell, which delivers a quality-engineered finished metal push-fit system at a rate which doubles current production capacity.


From classroom to clinical practice


Endoscopists training at Cardiff University’sWelsh Institute for Minimal Access Therapy (WIMAT) Endoscopy skills laboratory at University Hospital Llandough are to benefit from enhanced facilities. This follows the supply, to the facility,


of two new fully digital flexible endoscopy stacks and associated components


from Fujifilm by its sole UK distributor, Imotech Medical. Valued at around £30,000, the


equipment will be used to train endoscopists using high-quality simulation models. WIMAT is the regional administration


centre for JAG-approved endoscopy training courses inWales. As a Royal College of Surgeons Accredited Training Centre, it offers courses from the Royal College of Surgeons of England, and the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, and hosts training provided by leading medical suppliers. Imotech has supplied the ‘endoscopy skills lab’ with two fully digital endoscopy stacks, including processor, light source, monitor, ‘scopes’, and trolley.


Monitoring optimises ‘energy savings’


Spirax Sarco has enhanced its EasiHeat engineered systems for delivering hot water and heating on-demand ‘to deliver up to 20% energy savings compared with conventional steam-to-water heating systems’. EasiHeat now features the Spirax


Intelligent Monitoring System (SIMS), a control and monitoring display technology that uses a colour touchscreen interface to deliver key performance data – such as steam use, fuel consumption, and temperature – to help operators monitor energy use more closely, and adjust systems to optimise efficiency.


16 Health Estate Journal September 2013 SIMS is accessible remotely through


the Internet, or via ‘smartphones’ using SMS messaging, and compatible ‘with most proprietary plant communication networks’. Steam users installing multiple EasiHeat systems can control them all via a single ‘Master Panel’. The company said: “Even without the


addition of SIMS, Spirax EasiHeat systems typically offer between 6%–10% energy savings over ‘traditional’ shell- and-tube exchanger systems. The new system delivers a further 10% energy saving on average – by ensuring that all useful energy is extracted.”


Call for ‘pre-entry standards’ Speaking at the Association of Healthcare Cleaning Professionals’ recent 2013 Annual Conference in Bolton, in her final address as AHCP national chair, Denise Foster, hotel services manager at South Tees Hospitals NHS Trust, challenged Association members, the NHS, and the Government, to introduce nationally recognised pre-entry qualifications and training standards for healthcare cleaners.Without these, she said, Government and NHS managers’ attempts to deliver consistently high standards of hygiene and cleanliness in healthcare settings would ‘continue to fall short of expectations’.


Synonymous with steam Heat transfer specialist, Fulton, has moved to a new 43,000 ft2


Bristol-based


UK headquarters, a ‘centre of excellence’ for its heat transfer products, which will provide comprehensive customer support – from applications advice to delivery – and accommodate a training/seminar facility. The Fulton name has been ‘synonymous with steam’ since 1949, when the company introduced the vertical tubeless steam boiler in the US. Fulton is now ‘a leading manufacturer of thermal heat transfer systems for applications such as water heating, steam sterilisation, and processing’.


Plans to take UK market by storm Following some 20 years’ successful trading in Germany andmainland Europe, plasticsmedia specialist, Hewitech, has set up a subsidiary, Hewitech UK, in Cheltenham, and plans local production soon. Headed by director Dave Fozzard, who has extensive experience in the sector, Hewitech UK says it is ‘well placed to take a significant share of the UK market in waste water treatment and stormwatermanagement’. Its parent company, based in Ochtrup, Germany, is ‘an innovator of recycled polypropylene media, for applications ranging from cooling towers to waste water treatment’.


‘Expert’ healthcare cleaning division Warrington-based In Depth Managed Services, a cleaning and FM specialist, has launched a dedicated healthcare cleaning division focusing on hospitals, dialysis centres, nursing and care homes, and dental surgeries. Kay Timms, the UK service delivery manager heading up the healthcare division, said: “Healthcare is one of our key areas for future growth. We’ve noticed an increase in demand for reliable, expert cleaners in this environment.”


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