Cleanzine: your weekly cleaning and hygiene industry newsletter 12th October 2017 Issue no. 793
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Products Building One FS "first in Connecticut" to offer innovative germ-fighting electrostatic system
Ettore: Three glass cleaners working with one machine
Three people can work simultaneously with this stainless steel machine, one with the chemicals and the other two with the water." Berlin cleaning trade fair sets new attendance record
"The lightest backpack vacuum in the world"
The electric version weighs only 3.8 kg and provides air volume lift of 52 litres/sec. New rapid water test will help fight Legionnaires' disease across EMEA region
Global industrial vacuum cleaner market to reach US$ 729.9mn by 2027
Clorox Healthcare helps EvergreenHealth fight infection-causing pathogens
iVo Power Brush XL - for hard floor details & stairs
Kaivac opens new corporate campus to support major sales growth Kaivac, developer of the No-Touch Cleaning and OmniFlex cleaning systems, marks a milestone in its corporate history. The company is moving 9th October, 2017, to a new, multi-building corporate campus in Hamilton, Ohio - a move president & CEO Bob Robinson Sr, says was needed because of significant business growth in the past few years in the US, Canada, and overseas.
Built by Swiss firm Zaugg AG, the company usually makes snow clearing equipment for use on roads, railways and airfields.
World premiere for Hako's Scrubmaster B120 R
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Cleanzine - the original Cleaning & Hygiene industry e-news Read by industry professionals in 163 countries worldwide! I've said many times over the years we've been broadcasting Cleanzine that we should bring back the bottle return schemes we ditched decades ago, where we were charged not just for our drink but also for the bottle in which it was supplied. Return the bottle from whence it came and you'd receive your deposit back. The beauty of the scheme was that because bottles were worth money, you'd find fewer littering or smashed up on the streets because if you couldn't be bothered to return yours, the local children would. These days, it would also reduce the cost of our kerbside collections. As you can imagine, I was pleased to learn about the study by Eunomia, written for - amongst others - Keep Britain Tidy, the Marine Conservation Society, Surfers Against Sewage, Campaign to Protect Rural England and Reloop, which found that local authorities across England could save up to £35 million every year if a deposit refund system for plastic and glass bottles and aluminium cans was introduced. The analysis across eight local authorities, (including those with high and low recycling rates) found that rather than losing income, an authority could potentially make savings of between £60,000 and £500,000. And while the authorities would lose some income as there would be a reduced number of cans and plastic bottles in the kerbside collections to sell to recyclers, the savings made from having fewer containers to collect and sort, as well as reduced levels of littering and reduced landfill charges, would actually create savings that outweigh the loss of revenue. With local authority resources under increasing pressure, these findings provide evidence that, rather than negatively affecting local authority waste services, a DRS could actually support them and reduce the costs of delivering the service, while also delivering cleaner streets and reducing the amount of plastic entering our oceans. Every day, 35 million plastic bottles and 20 million aluminium cans are sold across the UK and many end up as litter, in our oceans or in landfill sites. Evidence from the US, Norway and Germany, shows that the introduction of a simple deposit on plastic bottles and cans could raise collection rates above 90% and reduce littering. What on earth are we waiting for? Please get in touch either by emailing me or posting a comment on our Facebook page www.facebook.com/Cleanzine
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        This Week's News
Bain makes offer for Zenith Hygiene to expand Diversey in Europe Bain Capital Private Equity has this week announced that it has, through its investment in Diversey, reached agreement on the terms of a recommended final cash offer for Zenith Hygiene Group, the UK manufacturer of cleaning and hygiene chemicals and related products. Born again - thanks to Kärcher
Kimberly-Clark Professional joins CABA board to advance intelligent building discussions Kimberly-Clark Professional has joined the Continental Automated Buildings Association's (CABA) board of directors. CABA is a trade association that promotes advanced technologies for integrated systems and the automation of homes and buildings. Bridging the gap between cleaning the environment and infection prevention & control
Loo of the Year Awards judging commences
The inspection criteria are based on fitness for purpose from the user's perspective. Are the washrooms clean? Do they provide all the facilities that users require? Do they meet Building Regulations Doc M and Equality Act dimensions and the needs of users that require accessible toilets or Changing Places facilities? Do they provide adequate facilities for babies and children? Lanes proves a safe bet for casino drainage solution
Facilities managers needed a long-term and effective solution to the problem, which had the potential to inconvenience customers and damage the fabric of the building. Impact of outstanding FM recognised at the BIFM Awards
Now in their 17th year, the Awards celebrated the very best the FM industry has to offer, honouring the outstanding contributions helping to advance the profession and industry and acting as a benchmark for excellence across the FM sector. BluSky Restoration Contractors of Colorado merges with North Carolina-based Disaster One BluSky Restoration Contractors, of Colorado, is merging with North Carolina-based Disaster One, a privately owned and operated restoration company serving commercial and residential clients since 1977. "BluSky and Disaster One share similar missions and core values that are driven first and foremost on our firms providing best in class customer service," says Kent Stemper, BluSky CEO. Johnson & Johnson introduces social enterprise's soap to UK washrooms
The product has been trialled at Johnson & Johnson's Pinewood office and there are plans to assess the potential for a nationwide rollout across all UK offices. It is estimated that the company will create thousands of hours of employment, equivalent to 11 new part-time jobs per year. Vectair Systems Inc. joins US Green Building Council
The USGBC is 'committed to a sustainable, prosperous future through LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design), the leading programme for green buildings and communities worldwide'. "Create wealth from waste", Minister tells students
The Minister told them to be creative in their thinking and find ways to take advantage of the country's waste to create wealth. Broadgate Campus awards major cleaning contract to JPC
"We are very proud to have won this contract," comments JPC Cleaning managing director, John Conry Jnr. "It further testifies as to both our reputation and capability to deliver five-star standards, and is a honour to be servicing this fantastic development and be entrusted with its future." The Cleanzine Archive Search We keep an extensive archive of news stories and product information that have featured in past issues of The Cleanzine. If you would like to run a search of the The Cleanzine web site using the search tool below please just go ahead by entering in the name of the person, product or company or any other key words that you are looking for. How to contact us at The Cleanzine:
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