RECENT PRODUCT NEWS

Altro’s new Altro Pisces is a wet environment safety flooring for shoes and bare feet which ‘combines all the benefits of safety flooring with the look and feel of home’.

Ecophon says its new range of Akusto One vertical independent sound absorbers are ‘easy to install, and ideal for creating spaces where both exceptional acoustics and aesthetics are required cost-effectively’.

Powermatic controlled, concealed door closers have become the 'preferred choice' of clinicians, health estate managers and designers when looking at the construction and improvement of mental health facilities, according to manufacturers Samuel Heath.

Powermatic controlled, concealed door closers tick all the right boxes when it comes to fire safety and are particularly well-suited for installation in all types of healthcare facilities.

Safehinge has unveiled a ‘ground-breaking’ new acoustic threshold seal designed to create more peaceful environments and ensure privacy and safety for patients in psychiatric facilities.

Available in standard and free swing versions, Powermatic controlled, concealed door closers are totally concealed when the door is closed, delivering a host of benefits in aesthetics, hygiene, safety and well-being that are proving extremely popular with specifiers, clinicians and facilities managers throughout the healthcare sector.

Britplas have launched a new version of their award-winning Safevent window, the Safevent Access.

IVision is an innovative manual vision panel that its manufacturer claims to offer greater than 90% visibility, double what is currently available, with total blackout.

Leading UK physical security supplier Securikey has achieved ‘Police Preferred Specification’ status for nine models within its convex safety mirror range.

The Movastop from Primera Life is a fullheight safety rebate ‘slim enough to fit even the narrowest of door frames’, and built from aluminium for strength, which the manufacturer says ‘will not warp or twist, and doesn’t need painting’.

Following ‘significant demand from existing and potential customers’, Knightsbridge Furniture is set to expand its Extreme furniture collection – designed specifically for challenging environments – with the addition of Lucy Extreme and Sierra settees and chairs, ‘improving choice for care homes and hospitals across the country’.

Building on its success ‘over many years’ in the mental healthcare market, Fendor will launch a new ‘stripped back’ window, CareVent, aimed at general hospitals and other care facilities, which it describes as its ‘answer to standard double glazing’, offering strength and longevity, thermal performance, and additional security features’.

A new range of ‘cost-effective’ murals that the company says ‘are visually striking, and can transform corridors or rooms into a vibrant, meaningful space for all who live, visit, and work there’, will be shown by Care Home Murals at the Care & Dementia Show (taking place at the NEC Birmingham from 3-4 November).

Assa, part of Security Solutions, a division of Assa Abloy UK, has launched a KeyPad escutcheon that features multi-factor authentication, providing extra security for its SMARTair wireless access control system.

Life-Line is a new gated key system from Primera Life designed to limit the potential for service-users to block a key-way in an attempt to prevent clinical staff from operating the locks in a secure environment.

Yewdale says ‘a zero ligature risk within the washroom environment is now a reality’ following its unveiling at May’s Design in Mental Health 2015 event of the SafeDoor by YewdaleKestrel.

At May's Design in Mental Health 2015 show Safehinge launched its new Symphony doorset 'package' – 'a fully coordinated door safety system for mental health and dementia care'.

Intastop has launched a range of vision panels that it says ‘provide discretion, while simultaneously allowing increased visibility’.

Apollo Fire Detectors has unveiled the new addressable detectors which form the initial line-up in the SOTERIA detection range, described as ‘the next generation in fire recognition technology’.