Smart Choice. Significant Savings. 484,513 gallons. That is the average volume of water going over Niagara Falls every second. With the lifetime savings realized from the Consolidated WaterECO® system, you can power Niagara Falls for more than sixteen seconds. That’s a lot of water you won’t be paying for. Most modern autoclaves utilize a large amount of water in order to reduce the discharge temperature to drain and comply with local building codes. The Consolidated WaterEco® Gravity Series has been developed to drastically reduce the water consumed by the autoclave. Both the WaterEco® Gravity and WaterEco® Gravity Plus systems operate without the use of electricity, and can be installed on new sterilizers or retrofitted onto existing sterilizers. Learn more about the WaterEco Series →
2.28.24 Setting up your SPD for Success: 8 Reasons to Own a Backup Autoclave → Steam is the most reliable and effective method for sterilizing medical equipment, and as a result, autoclaves are a fixture in almost every ASC’s sterilization setup. But, as is often the case, there are numerous situations in which ASCs find themselves without sufficient sterile processing capacity or a backup plan for when main units are […]
2.7.24 Consolidated Earns ACT Label, Highlighting Commitment to Sustainability → Have you ever wished that you could review an autoclave’s energy and water use, manufacturing impact, and packaging content similar to how you’d read a nutrition label at the grocery store? That’s the idea behind the ACT Environmental Impact Factor (EIF) label. Short for Accountability, Consistency, and Transparency, the ACT label demonstrates the environmental impact […]
7.12.23 Cordyceps Sterilization: How to Kill “The Last of Us” Parasite → In HBO’s recent adaptation of “The Last of Us,” a popular action-adventure video game, life as we know it is upended by a parasitic fungus that transforms its human hosts into zombies. The culprit? Cordyceps, a real-life genus of fungus which is best known for infecting insects (most famously ants) in much the same manner […]
