Beautifully crafted, acrylic solid surface casework and furniture for healthcare
Healthcare environments are demanding.
Is your healthcare furniture up to the challenge?
Specifications matter. Dynamic clinical workflows, regulatory standards, and lifetime value expectations are changing the way buyers evaluate healthcare casework, furniture, and other architectural products.
Shield Casework has developed high-performance acrylic solid surface alternatives to traditional wood-based and stainless steel products.
Acrylic solid surface has been around since the 1960's.
Why are we only using it for countertops?
Durable, hygienic, and nonporous, acrylic solid surface is a design standard countertop material in healthcare. It can last so long, you may never need to replace it.
Facility managers, clinicians, environmental services, C-suite level stakeholders, and even designers experience first-hand the downstream consequences of product failures, which can be easily overlooked from planning to purchasing phases.
Infection control and prevention is central to healthcare design.
Is your design helping or hurting your strategy?
As part of a grant from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), several organizations, including the Health Research & Educational Trust of the American Hospital Association and the American Society for Health Care Engineering (ASHE), collaborated on creating a best practice guide to help healthcare organizations create safer healing environments.
The core guiding principles identified for furniture surface characteristics are: durability, cleanability, inability to support microbial growth, surface porosity, and absence of seams.
Durability
Acrylic solid surface is homogenous, easy to maintain, and repairable. It lasts so long you may never need to replace it.
Cleanability
Fluid-resistant and non-porous, acrylic solid surface stands up to strong hospital-grade cleaners and disinfectants, including bleach.
Miocrobial-Resistant
Acrylic solid surface doesn't hold moisture so it doesn't support microbial growth, which can help prevent infections of staff, patients, and visitors.
Non-porous
Acrylic solid surface is primarily a combination of aluminum trihydrate (ATH) - a natural mineral - and acrylic resin. Once cured, this inert, GREENGUARD certified material is also class-A fire rated.
Seamless
Shield has patented methods of building with solid surface unlike any other manufacturer. Chemical welds create virtually seamless joints and connections in acrylic solid surface.
lifetime protection
Some things shouldn't be disposable, which is why we stand by our products with an unmatched lifetime warranty. We'll fix or replace any manufacturer's defects, for life.
Shield's solid surface design is unlike any other manufacturer.
What makes it so unique?
Actions speak louder than words. So we created "Shelfie".
In order to demonstrate the outrageous durability of Shield's acrylic solid surface products, we left Shelfie, one of our meticulously-crafted cabinets, in the Kansas wilderness for almost a year. The results may surprise you.
Let's find out if these lifetime products are right for you.
Our specialists are ready to help answer questions or get you started.