Envac to Supply Vacuum Waste Collection System to Chinese Hospital

Stockholm, Sweden based underground automated vacuum waste collection specialist, Envac, has secured its largest tri-system contract with Hainan Cancer Hospital, an international centre of healing and research in Haikou City, China. Under the deal, estimated to be worth almost €3.6 million, Envac said that it will install a system to the general waste of over 11,000 staff and patients, as well as the laundry of the 1200 bed hospital. The company added that the vacuum waste collection system will also form a key component in helping the hospital to achieve the ‘Luban Award’, a prestigious award for design and construction in China. The development will integrate Envac’s general waste system, its linen collection system, which will transport laundry around the entire site, and the Kitchen Waste System throughout the hospital’s 230,000 m2 build area. A general waste system will also be connected to the hospital’s staff quarter. In total the three systems are expected to transport almost 13 tonnes of waste from the site’s 628 waste inlets each day throughout a pipe network that will span almost 2.7km. “Given the size of the hospital traditional modes of waste collection and transportation are no longer viable,” explained Wang Tielin, director of the hospital at Hainan Cancer Hospital According to Tielin, the hospital chose the Envac system will make waste collection easier and quicker whilst freeing up valuable corridor space as manual waste collection movements will be reduced by 90%. “It’s also much more hygienic than traditional waste collection which, as a hospital, is one of our main priorities,” he added. Fredrik Lauritsen, head of Envac’s Hospital Programme, commented: “The simplicity around automated waste collection, not to mention its countless benefits, is enough for large organisations to rethink their waste strategy.” “Hainan Cancer Hospital has achieved this and on completion it will have a method of waste collection that will save time and money whilst dramatically increasing the hospital’s productivity and hygiene levels,” he added. Construction on the site began in March 2014 and is expected to be complete by July 2015. Read More Envac's Underground Vacuum Waste Collection Takes Off in Dubai Envac, has won two new contracts with the Emirates Flight Catering Facility in Dubai. Boughton Hooklift Trucks & Trailers for Norfolk Household Recycling Centres Waste and recycling firm, Norfolk Environmental Waste Services has taken delivery of six Boughton hook-loader equipped Volvo FM 8 wheel trucks. VIDEO: Recycling in Saint Paul, Minnesota to Feature Single Bin Collections & No Sorting The City of Saint Paul, Minnesota has launched its ‘All In’ single bin recycling program that requires no sorting of waste by residents.