Mueller Europe

Mueller Europe Healthcare & Life Sciences are part of Mueller Europe, the UK’s largest manufacturer of copper tube and pipe.

Mueller Europe's Healthcare & Life Sciences division partners with NHS Trusts and care providers across the UK to tackle one of healthcare's most persistent challenges: infection transmission through sinks and drains. Our flagship solution, AseptiFlow™, is a passive mechanical device invented by Dr James Soothill MBBS, MD, FRCPath of Great Ormond Street Hospital, engineered to prevent direct splash-back and aerosol transmission of multidrug-resistant Gram-negative bacteria at source.

Sustainability sits at the core of our approach as AseptiFlow™ is manufactured in copper, a material that is infinitely recyclable without loss of performance or purity, supporting circular economy principles across the healthcare estate. But the sustainability case runs deeper than just materials. By reducing colonisation and cross-transmission within wastewater systems, AseptiFlow™ supports more judicious antibiotic use, contributing to antimicrobial stewardship efforts at a time when the World Health Organization has warned that antimicrobial resistance could contribute to 10 million deaths annually by 2050 if left unchecked.

For NHS estates and infection prevention teams, this means a practical, low-intervention route to safer water systems, reduced antibiotic pressure, and a genuinely sustainable materials footprint that is suitable for both new build and retrofit projects.