Brandon Medical Co Ltd design, manufacture and market medical lighting. This includes surgical operating theatre lights, minor surgical lights and examination lights. They also market medical room lighting products (for patient care areas) and have an associated company that markets high efficiency commercial lighting products.
Brandon Medical has a complimentary range of products for (1) control systems for operating theatre (2) special power supply systems for theatres and intensive care (3) medical audio-visual systems for operating theatres and medical teaching (4) medical architectural equipment including medical gas service pendants. These are a mixture of products developed in house, products developed with partners, own branded products and some agency products. They are able to build and deliver complete "digital operating theatres" and fully equipped intensive care units as well as being the biggest supplier of medical lighting in the UK. Brandon also exports around 30% of our current production.
The company has averaged 25% compound growth per annum for over 10 years and is widely recognised for its extremely high level of innovation regionally, nationally and internationally. The Company has won 5 major innovation awards in 2008, 2009 and 2010 including a Ruban d'Honneur in the European Business Awards (selected from 15,000 companies across every EU state).
Role in the project
Brandon Medical have worked with Sagentia to develop and improve the medical lighting products for 8 years, first on tungsten halogen designs and then in the development of our HD-LED technique. They also worked with one of the other partners (Zett) to develop one specific application of the HD-LED lighting technology. Brandon is aware of the development of the technology for non-medical applications (by Sagentia) and have working knowledge of these applications.
Brandon expertise lies in the key applications of (a) clinical lighting (b) medical room lighting (c) general room lighting. They are widely acknowledged to be UK experts on "ultra efficient lighting" and speak regularly on the subject on behalf of the Institute of Hospital Engineers (IHEEM).
Their role in the project is to develop the applications and the route to market. The initial target market for application of this technology is healthcare buildings. This market values high (colour) quality and ultra high energy efficiency and is knowledgeable about both performance and benefits. The company is widely networked in the healthcare building and construction industry and with the end users (the NHS hospitals).
Benefits Expected from Participation
Brandon Medical expects to be lead partner on the project and to be the major beneficiary of the IP relating to use in healthcare and commercial buildings.
We expcect to increase our knowledge, capability and understanding of solid state lighting technology
We expect to incorporate the new IP in products that we manufacture for healthcare buildings and to licence our IP for non-healthcare applications.
Brandon Medical double in size every 3 years (and has done for more than 10 years). Our aim is to grow our business from £7M turnover today to £50M turnover by 2020. The development of the best solid state lighting technology is the key to us achieving our growth targets.
Participant URL - www.brandon-medical.com
