High Performance Polymeric Flooring is the Choice for NBS Centre of Excellence

The new NBS Filton centre is the world's biggest blood centre, handling 600,000 units of donated blood a year. The facility forms part of the new strategic vision of the Health Service for providing blood products for the future. The state of the art facility now includes Dycem high performance contamination control flooring.

The Facilities Department were tasked to provide a suitable solution for contamination control to the Manufacturing Hall. Facilities manager, Nick Hawker contacted Dycem during the development of the new facility in order to find out more about how Dycem could help to prevent foot and wheel borne contamination from entering critical manufacturing areas.

“We had been looking for an alternative to peel-off mats and discovered Dycem products. Dycem was recommended to us by Bio Products Laboratory (BPL) who has the control mats installed in their laboratories. Dycem Clean Zone has been installed in over nine areas at the entrances to the critical areas.”

Dycem polymeric flooring and mats have long been recognised as an effective route to preventing floor and wheel borne contamination from entering critical environments. A research study by Dr Caroline S Clibbon, Senior Microbiologist at GlaxoSmithKline shows that Dycem contamination control floor coverings and mats are over 99% effective in preventing contaminants from entering a critical area.

Dycem plays a vital part of an integrated contamination control programme. All Dycem products contain an antimicrobial agent during the original manufacture stage, which has been proven to reduce the growth of over 50 organisms. All products are simple to use and remain effective for up to five years. Dycem products are also included in Standard Operating Procedures (SOP’s) and meet the requirements of all regulatory bodies including the FDA.

Nick Hawker, said
“We have found the quality of the product and after sales service to be excellent. Dycem has proved to be a useful product in the fight against contamination in the vital manufacturing areas of our Filton centre.”