Envac, a global pioneer of underground automated vacuum waste collection with a head office in Stockholm, Sweden, has secured its largest tri-system contract to date with Hainan Cancer Hospital, an international centre of healing and research that is being built in Haikou City, China.
Under the deal, which is estimated to be worth almost £3m (€3.6m), Envac will handle the laundry of 1,200 hospital beds and the general waste of more than 11,000 staff and patients.
The hospital is under construction and is expected to be completed by July 2015.
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 230,000km2 build area. A general waste system will also be connected to the hospital’s staff quarters.
In total the three systems will transport almost 13 tonnes of waste from the site’s 628 waste inlets each day throughout a pipe network that will span almost two miles (2.7km) in length on completion.
Traditional waste collection is rapidly becoming an out-dated and ineffective approach to waste management
Wang Tielin, Director of Hainan Cancer Hospital, said: 'Given the size of the hospital, traditional modes of waste collection and transportation are no longer viable. With a strong hospital portfolio in China, Envac has not only proved that its technology is tried and tested but also highly successful in densely populated areas. It’s also much more hygienic than traditional waste collection which, as a hospital, is one of our main priorities. Envac will make waste collection easier and quicker while freeing up valuable corridor space as manual waste collection movements will be reduced by 90%.'
Fredrik Lauritsen, Head of Envac’s Hospital Programme, added: 'Traditional waste collection is rapidly becoming an out-dated and ineffective approach to waste management.
'The simplicity around automated waste collection, not to mention its countless benefits, is enough for large organisations to rethink their waste strategy and integrate a solution that is relevant both now and in the future. Hainan Cancer Hospital has achieved this and on completion it will have a method of waste collection that will save time and money while dramatically increasing the hospital’s productivity and hygiene levels.'
