Hydro International is launching the Hydro Brake Optimum, a new flow control that the company claims represents a major advance in vortex technology. Hydro says that Hydro Brake Optimum promises to set new performance standards and achieve significant construction cost savings.<br> <br> The Hydro-Brake Optimum dispenses with the need to choose from a range of sizes and types and instead offers built-in flexibility to size each unit for absolute fit. From now on, one type of Hydro-Brake, the Hydro-Brake Optimum, will balance flow rates and surface water storage requirements to suit each drainage project without approximation, Hydro explains.<br> <br> Hydro says that its existing range of Hydro-Brake flow controls already provides significant savings in surface water storage over conventional flow controls. Now the Hydro-Brake Optimum offers up to a further 15% saving when compared to other vortex flow control devices, the company says.<br> <br> www.hydro-int.com or enter E0347 on the reader enquiry card