Support & Services For over 65 years, Consolidated has designed and manufactured its products around four basic concepts: Reliability Serviceability Functionality Cost Effectiveness Reliability and serviceability are very important to our customers and our service representatives. As a result of our attention to these two attributes, Consolidated’s products experience the least amount of downtime in the industry. With a focus on functionality, we aim to incorporate off-the-shelf, non-proprietary components into our products. This allows our customers a wide variety of options for service and component replacement throughout the life of the sterilizer. Although we maintain a supply of replacement parts, most parts can be found through locally available suppliers; emphasizing the importance of keeping costs down.
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 […]