Public Funding for NHC Technology Limited

NHC Technology Ltd was established in Denbigh since 1971 and employs a highly skilled workforce of 71 staff at our purpose built manufacturing site. NHC manufactures a range of products incorporating cycloidal vibration therapy (CVT), including beds, chairs, physiotherapy products, equine and medical products to a range of markets from consumer to NHS primarily in the UK under various brands. Our clinical research has shown that the noninvasive application of cycloidal vibration increases soft tissue circulation and reduces pain resulting in health benefits by relieving some of the symptoms of a range of clinical conditions and in the NHS arena, aids wound healing. All products are registered medical devices meeting European standards. The CVG’s used in our products are unique in design to NHC technology and historically due to this they are an integral component in the structure of the end product with the result the generators are large, costly and inflexible in design for further product development. This currently determines and severely limits the aesthetics, weight, cost and function of our product range. This project seeks to design and develop a new, smaller and lower cost, cycloidal vibration module (CVM) plus the necessary power and controls systems. It is envisaged that the ‘next generation’ CVM will be a smaller preassembled unit that will give us greater design flexibility for integration into our existing products. Also, this being a generic development, it will provide the basis to undertake the development of a number of new products that cannot be effectively developed using the current design of generator. The significant risk in the development of this generator is that it has to produce the same cycloidal vibration waveform, frequency and displacement range as our current products. Otherwise it will not have the same physiological and clinical effect when applied and will not fall within the scope of our current clinical claims and research.