Chloride System’s horizontal PathMaster is designed to support low-level illumination of stairwells, step landings, wheelchair ramps, and exit corridors. By eliminating any visible fastening hardware, it will seamlessly blend into interior spaces as well as outdoor areas. PathMaster incorporates a 10-year continuous duty rated, white LED light engine and driver. A 12-volt or 120 VAC input allows for flexible system design. PathMaster meets the Buy American requirements. www.chloridesys.com

ContentHub simplifies content management for hotels. The solution allows hotels to combine image and text updates to alternative and global distribution systems (GDSs), ensuring content is kept current and accurate across all channels. With a single management environment, ContentHub improves operational efficiencies, eliminating the need for hotels to load images and text into multiple systems using multiple tools. www.pegs.com

Star Linen & Supply’s Marquis Green Terry Collection is manufactured from pre-consumer textile waste, using the patented Enova Process to restore the fiber to its original state. The result is a product with the look, feel, and strength of traditional terry products that eliminates the use of pesticides and fertilizers and conserves water and land use. The collection is manufactured in a zero-discharge facility that produces no emission of effluents into rivers and streams. www.starlinen.com

SoftBrands HMS (Hotel Management System) integrates multiple hotel functions to help hospitality companies maximize revenues and deliver the best possible guest service. The complete solution enables companies to manage availability, rates, reservations, guest profiles, and in-house services. By integrating front office and central reservations with other areas of the business, users get a centralized, unified look at guests and business performance.  www.infor.com/softbrands

The Evolve AI is an 8-inch color touchscreen display that replaces the guestroom alarm clock and provides an interactive guest experience. Its standard functions include full alarm clock functionality, including dual alarm and wake-up call scheduling, iPod/iPhone/iPad connectivity for audio and charging, Grooveshark Internet radio, and five-day weather forecast. Other features include full room control, concierge services, and full customization. www.eguestcontrols.com

OpenWays’ Mobile Key solution allows hotel guests to use their mobile phone if they want to bypass the front desk check-in procedure and get straight into their rooms. The technology adapts existing, or is integrated with new, electronic locking systems and is compatible with all the major locks installed today. OpenWays is a “data key,” which means it can be delivered wherever a customer is, whenever they need access to their room, and reduces plastic card waste. It’s compatible with all mobile phones (...

Hunter Douglas Hospitality and Farmboy Fine Arts collaborated to rethink roller shades as art pieces, combining form and function to transform windows into a new focal point of the room. The collection presents a bold way of incorporating art into lobby, guestroom, spa, restaurant, and healthcare spaces to re-energize the space or screen an unwanted view. The five collections span artistic genres, from the elegant sensibilities of Baroque lace to the movement and ease of expressionist brush strokes. www....

DIRECTV’s Residential Experience for hotels transports the living room experience into the hotel room with more than 100 HD channels, an enhanced interactive program guide, the full residential programming lineup, and an anti-microbial remote designed specifically for the lodging and hospitality industry. The service delivers the programming to compact and easily hidden set-top boxes in each hotel room so that guests can enjoy the same DIRECTV experience they get at home. Property owners also have the ab...

Bloom’s Alma Papa is a modern, solid wood crib suitable from newborn to 4 years. Two mattress heights allow for use as a co-sleeper/bassinet and full-size crib, and open slats on all four sides maximize airflow. Its patented compact-fold construction provides for easy storage when not in use, as well as easy transport to guestrooms whenever a crib is requested. Four lockable casters allow for room-to-room mobility. The crib finishes are low VOC and baby safe, as well as MDF- and formaldehyde-free. Availa...

Concept Amenities developed a range of toiletries under its ERP (environmentally responsible product) logo. Plastic packaging for its guest amenity lines is created using an organic-based additive, Eco Pure, which allows the packaging to fully biodegrade to water and carbon dioxide within a few years under normal landfill conditions. Among these bath and body product lines for hotel guests is Jean-Michel Cousteau by Maricoid, which features paraben-free liquids and soaps formulated with 100 percent organ...

The Hudson Valley Lighting Contract Hospitality Division offers the same level of detail and classic American elegance characteristic to all their fixtures, but focuses on specifying and supplying high-quality functional and decorative lighting for large-scale commercial and hotel projects. The new contract hospitality division joins the other hospitality divisions from the Littman family of brands, including Troy Lighting Contract Hospitality. Troy Lighting Contract Hospitality’s new collection of orig...

Watermark’s new “smart” Luxury Shower System offers a mix of technology, water conservation, and water heating efficiencies. A plus for hotel owners and developers looking for high-tech features that help conserve water and energy, the LSS also tracks water usage through its Green Statistics function, which displays current, maximum, and minimum water used in the shower, and allows the user to compare consumption to eight other pre-sets. Additionally, the hospitality mode allows one pre-set program to b...

The Mitchell Group’s variety of faux leather collections includes Sta-Kleen, the first polyurethane performance fabric that allows for complete erasing of marks and stains that permanently damage other furniture upholstery. From ballpoint pen and permanent marker to mustard, tough stains can be dry-erased with cloth, and ghost stains removed with household rubbing alcohol. Repeated cleaning doesn’t damage or diminish the surface. Sta-Kleen is available in an array of contemporary colors and patterns, al...

LOFTwall offers a wide range of divider solutions for the hospitality industry. The screens can divide hotel lobby areas, create a backdrop in reception areas, or section off areas in restaurants and lounges for semi-private events. LOFTwalls can create privacy between living and sleeping areas in a guestroom. The panels come in a wide range of opaque and translucent finishes and can be easily changed within the space. The frames are standard aluminum and come in 40 finishes. www.loftwall.com

Sealy’s next generation Posturepedic mattress collection offers superior support and extended durability and resilience to the center, side, and bottom of the mattress. Instead of standard steel, the collection features titanium alloy innersprings that are 10 percent stronger than previous models. The mattresses are made with pre-compressed, high-density foam to reduce body impressions, and its CoreSupport center gives extra support where it matters most. The foundation is rubberized to stop mattresses ...

Durkan, the hospitality brand of The Mohawk Group, introduced Durkan carpet tiles, which can be paired with different textured base grades to add dimension and illuminate patterns and colors. The company debuts the offering with its Vamp Collection, one of the first to feature both broadloom and carpet tile patterns. The modern collection uses a color palette filled with warm shades of reds, magentas, golds, and purples, with botanical and geometric design elements complementing one another. Like all Du...

Textile supplier Standard Fiber showed off its Elevations line, an innovative concept in performance terry. Targeted weight distribution focuses loft and absorbency in the center of the towel, where performance matters most. Textured, woven Jacquard patterns that accent each end of the towel create weight and laundry savings. The towels are woven with 100 percent ring-spun combed cotton and manufactured with Centium Core Technology. Products in the Elevations line include bath towels, pool towels, hand ...

Commercial carpet manufacturer Bentley Prince Street introduced its new broadloom and carpet tile collections designed for the hospitality market. Among them is Kids Art & Friends, which takes advantage of high-resolution printing to deliver cut pile broadloom products with youthful colors and kid-approved designs. The company also unveiled two collections by design icon and partner Clodagh: a sheered version of its existing Tuscon line, and Natural State, which combines the quality of wool with the...

Cintas introduced a new eco-friendly apparel option for banquet staff. The new single-breasted tuxedos for men and women are partially composed of recycled polyester fibers woven from recycled plastic bottles. The tuxedos are also machine-washable, eliminating the use of harsh dry cleaning chemicals. The tuxedos feature a 23 percent recycled polyester/77 percent polyester blend. To develop recycled polyester, plastic bottles are diverted from landfills, broken down into polyester fiber and woven into we...

LG Electronics introduced its first Full HD 3-D LCD and commercial LED HDTVs. The 3-D LCD (model LD950C) is LG’s first 3-D LCD HDTV for hospitality properties and offers a truly cinematic experience away from the theaters and in the luxury setting of the hotel. Unlike consumer 3-D models that use expensive active shutter 3-D glasses, this LG commercial passive 3-D TV is based on polarized eyewear, similar to those used in 3-D movie theaters. Meanwhile, the LE530C LED HDTV is available in glossy black fi...

Genesis Bedding by Fabtex is the newest collection from the fabricator of hospitality bed coverings and window treatments. Created from the bold colors, stylish patterns, and rich textures of Genesis Fabrics, this new collection of bedding and draperies is designed to make it easy to add style and refinement to any guestroom. www.fabtex.com

NanaWall Systems Inc. introduces the NanaWall, an Energy Star-certified operable glass wall system that is used in more than 100 hospitality venues around the world, including in restaurants, conference areas, hotel suites, and lobbies. The NanaWall offers sustainable benefits such as: day lighting, which lowers energy use from artificial lighting. It can also improve indoor air quality, which allows visual and physical connections to the outside, according to the company. In addition, the wall offers p...

The Powermat Powerpak allows consumers to upgrade to wireless charging without changing their existing phone’s ergonomics and design. The technology can be applied to virtually any phone. In addition, a new line of single-, double-, and triple-position mats— Powermat 1X, Powermat 2X, and Powermat 3X—for home and office use are available. These new models offer a wider range of price points to a broader range of consumers. Powermat is also expanding its support of the iPhone 3G/3GS by introducing two new...

Engineers have developed Zenix, new dinnerware material, from a combination of pure minerals that add durability and absolute scratch-resistance. Zenix material—named for a reference to the Zen balance between strength, durability, and long-lasting beauty—is featured in two new Arcoroc dinnerware designs: traditional and elegant. A range of cups, saucers, and accessories complements the two lines. Manufactured with extra-strong Porcelain from Arcoroc, the units are designed to match the color specificat...

The VacRide combines dual brushes, vacuum motors, and certified-HEPA filters, to offer soil removal and dust containment. The ride-on platform allows cleaning staff to drive the machine instead of pushing, which cuts cleaning time, while also reducing operator fatigue. It features a 28-inch vacuum deck with a standard side broom, which together provides a 34-inch total cleaning path. A large 1.2 ft³ bag lets operators clean for longer periods of time. The unit offers quiet mode, which reduces the operat...

Stacy Garcia has teamed up with Brintons, a designer and manufacturer of woven Axminster and Wilton carpet, to launch a new and exclusive Axminster carpet collection, Nouveau Boho. Stacy Garcia is the namesake of New York-based design house, Stacy Garcia Inc., which has brought her design expertise to a number of mediums, including wallpaper, window treatments, carpet and fabrics. The Nouveau Boho collection is an assemblage of gorgeous texture, alluring color, and distinctive layered motifs paired...

More than 50 percent of Delta bath suites feature showerheads and handshowers that meet the latest specification introduced by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s WaterSense program. Seven of the company’s bath suites feature a showerhead with H2Okinetic Technology that is designed to improve water efficiency by 40 percent, flowing at 1.5 gpm while providing the feel of an enhanced flow of 2.5 gpm. www.deltafaucet.com

ChefTec has enhanced the “What If” Food Cost Calculator. This powerful tool allows users to re-engineer menus based on economic conditions. Users of the software can calculate the cost of each ingredient and base prices on different scenarios. The software is designed for chefs and food service owners/operators to help them keep tabs on menu costing, inventory control, and purchasing and ordering data. www.culinarysoftware.com

International cosmetics manufacturer Borghese and United Feather & Down have partnered to offer the new Villa di Borghese Bedding Collection for Hospitality, which brings the spa to the bedroom via luxury bedding treated with natural aloe vera. The bedding is inspired by Borghese’s notion of elements necessary for a healthy, beautiful life— rejuvenation, illumination, restoration, hydration, and relaxation.  As comfortable as it is sustainable, the line is constructed with top-quality Italian T...

Philips Electronics’ 2010 hospitality TV range includes new lines of commercial televisions for the free-to-guest (FTG) and pay-per-view (PPV) segments of the hospitality market. The Philips FTG Series, available in Harmony and Lavish ranges, and the Philips PPV Series, available in Synergy and Indulgence ranges, both include feature-rich attributes. They are designed to keep in line with industry trends of more high definition content free of charge, as well as guests bringing their own content in the ...

Cintas Corporation introduced true women’s sized professional apparel designed for sizes 16W to 32W. The new line is designed with unique proportions, different from misses, to provide a better fit. Unlike traditional workplace apparel, the women’s line offers sizes and styles that are consistent with retail selections, giving women confidence and satisfaction with their uniform. www.cintas.com

The remote control is one of the most touched items in every hotel room. A new product is designed to help ensure that all remotes are germ-free.The Gluvi Remote Control Cover is a brand new formfitting clear cover that fits most standard hotel remote controls. It slips on and keep germs from coming in contact with guests. It’s reusable and easy to clean by wiping with standard sanitary wipes or liquid based cleaning solvents. www.gluvi.com