Sanyo supplies blood refrigerators to Japanese Red Cross

Sanyo has announced that its biomedical division in Japan has secured a contract to supply blood-product refrigerators to the Japanese Red Cross Society.

According to Sanyo, the refrigerator units are to be installed at the tentatively-named Kyushu Blood Management Centre – which began being constructed in April this year – and are being supplied in a deal worth some 200 million yen (857,000 pounds).

Of the 23 coolers nine are prefab freezers for the cold storage of samples at -30 degrees C, three are express refrigeration units designed to quick-freeze blood products to -35 degrees C and another three fridges are for storing items such as chemical reagents.

The final eight units in the deal are freezer rooms or container rooms and will be delivered one-by-one between June and October this year, the company states.

Earlier this year, Sanyo announced that its Virus Washer air purifying system for businesses would go on sale in Europe from March 2007.