Hot and cold drinks ‘on tap’ for service-users

Nathan Murphy, National Project manager at Hotspot Titanium, a specialist in water appliances, discusses the development and launch into the mental healthcare sector of the company’s drinking tap range, designed to give staff and service-users safe, rapid access to hot and cold filtered water, enabling them to prepare their own drinks, and helping make for a less ‘institutional’ environment and a feeling of greater independence, as well as ensuring that they stay hydrated.

Hotspot Titanium as an independent company was born out of a Dutch innovation hub – Inventum, founded in 1908 by Alexander Vosmaer. Inventum – which today has its headquarters and main production facility in Utrecht – used the specifics of electric energy to create a range of innovative ventilation and boiling water appliances. The company’s promise – ‘Energy Innovation First: safe and trusted’ – has remained for over 100 years – a promise that started with innovation and the enthusiasm of people to do things differently and better, and has evolved into producing new products and creating new brands, such as Hotspot Titanium. Thanks to Inventum’s rich history, innovation, and expertise in delivering sustainable, energysaving hot water and ventilation solutions, Hotspot Titanium was spun off in 2016 as a sustainable and lean manufacturing company that guarantees quality from start to finish with its filtered boiling and chilled water solutions.

At Hotspot Titanium, we believe the hydration station is a central point in communal spaces, such as the shared spaces within mental healthcare facilities. These – as in other similar spaces – tend to be a place where people eat and drink together, and communicate and connect with each other.