Link: Scotsman.com
A SCOTTISH flooring manufacturer that claims its product can help the NHS in Scotland combat the superbug MRSA, has increased sales by over 13 per cent compared with last year, with the hospital sector now its fastest growing market.
Kirkcaldy-based Forbo-Nairn said research has indicated that MRSA and other harmful micro-organisms cannot live or breed on its Marmoleum flooring, its brand name for linoleum.
The firm, which claims to be the oldest linoleum maker in the world and is still on the same site where its business started in 1847, has just won three new hospital contracts with Radcliffe, Blackburn and Ormskirk and Southport Hospitals.
When Marmoleum products were used recently, Ormskirk and Southport hospitals recorded the lowest incidents of MRSA infection in the UK. Neil Aindow, facilities manager at Ormskirk and Southport said the flooring minimises the chances of MRSA spreading.
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It is important to prove scientifically before this kind of article is being published worldwide. Otherwise, flooring company selling this product will use this as the selling point, which yet to be proven, and could mislead the consultant, end-users as well as the public. The reduction in MRSA could be due to new flooring installed and not due to the “type” of flooring installed.