Cleanzine: your weekly cleaning and hygiene industry newsletter 19th September 2013 Issue no. 590
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Products Demand for pumps in North American sanitary applications remains steady The North American pump market for sanitary applications is growing along with its food and beverage, personal care and pharmaceutical end-user segments. Adoption of advanced pump systems in the region is driven by the aim of these end-users to achieve energy efficiency, reduce overall lifecycle costs, and achieve operational excellence. Spanish professional cleaning sector continues to increase exports Exports in the Spanish professional cleaning & hygiene sector are following a good trend, according to the Spanish Association of Manufacturers of Cleaning & Hygiene (Asfel). Faced with declining domestic market, manufacturers are turning to exporting their professional cleaning products to improve the balance sheet. They are also looking for export destinations. World Water Week opens with a call for life-saving cooperation over water
The team at RJN Chemicals is constantly striving to improve its products and packaging, from adjusting the fragrance levels, to choosing the right dispensing spoons for the job! Research, development and acting upon customer feedback, regardless of which aspect of the company's offering needs review, forms an everyday part of its business.
Increasing demand boosts Asia-Pacific antimicrobial coatings market Increasing demand for antimicrobials from end-user applications is boosting the antimicrobial coatings market in Asia-Pacific. The need to minimise infection and in turn, the cost of treatment has spurred the use of antimicrobial coatings on hospital window frames, door knobs and other areas where hygiene is mandatory, thereby sustaining investments in the market. Survey finds most cleaning pro's would recommend joining cleaning industry
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Cleanzine - the original Cleaning & Hygiene industry e-news Read by industry professionals in 148 countries worldwide! John and I are flying out to Berlin on Monday to cover CMS - the big cleaning exhibition that's held there every other year, which this year runs from Tuesday until Friday. Do look out for our daily reports on everything that's new and exciting - as well as all the gossip we pick up. And if you see us walking around the aisles, do come up and say 'hello'! Please get in touch either by emailing me or posting a comment on our Facebook page. www.facebook.com/Cleanzine Yours, This Week's News
All systems go for merger of Asset Skills, CSSA and FMA Asset Skills, the Cleaning & Support Services Association and the Facilities Management Association say that the three parties are now accelerating their plans to merge following calls from industry to provide greater rationalisation and better representation. This follows the British Institute of Facilities Management’s decision to withdraw from the merger discussions. Freudenberg announces screw connections based on hygienic design "consistently achievable" With its Hygienic Usit ring, Freudenberg Sealing Technologies Process Seals has developed the first step toward completely new hygienic standards for screw connections in the food, beverage, chemical and pharmaceutical industries. For the first time, complete screw connections meeting Hygienic Design standards are achievable with the combination of Hygienic Usit rings and highly polished NovoNox screws and cap nuts. Good food hygiene is good for business Customers are becoming increasingly aware of the food hygiene schemes and are actively looking for rating stickers when choosing where to eat out, Food Standards Agency research shows. It's in the can... new corporate video from Robert Scott & Sons Did you know that over 410,000 mops and 1 million dishcloths are produced every week by manual janitorial cleaning products manufacturer Robert Scott & Sons - and, that this UK-based company also supplies many of the country's leading retail chain stores with a range of cloths, mops and cleaning items from its portfolio of over 2000 products? Costs of gum removal will be slashed with new Gumwand invention A British company has invented and launched Gumwand, a new product that is set to slash the cost of removing chewing gum from pavements and floors to under 1p per piece of gum. Gumwand is 100% environmentally-friendly and safely removes gum from pavements combining steam and 'green' detergents. Gary Fage, Director at Janitorial Express has been testing the product and says: "Tackling the sticky problem on the streets is about to be made a whole lot easier and less expensive with this new machine; I predict that Gumwand will take the market by storm. We are certainly stocking it and will be pushing it hard." Working together to keep stores cleaner and safer Betco Corporation has partnered with Quick Request, a cutting-edge smartphone technology designed to better manage the cleanliness and appearance of stores and keep them safer for shoppers and staff. P&G Professional's new range can be ordered through your distributor In business today, you only get one chance to delight your customers and earn their loyalty. To help operators up their game and deliver a new level of clean that building users will really notice, P&G Professional today announced the hotly anticipated launch of a brand new range of cleaning and disinfecting products designed for direct distribution. Incentive FM's cleaning and security expertise enriches shopping centre portfolio Having proven itself by providing impressive cleaning and security services to Friars Square Shopping Centre in Aylesbury, Incentive FM has been rewarded with an extended and expanded contract. Under the terms of the new contract, which was awarded by Jones Lang LaSalle, the commercial property specialist, Incentive FM will expand its remit, which currently involves providing all soft services, to a full TFM model covering all maintenance for the centre. In its first national Tower Week, industry body Prefabricated Access Suppliers & Manufacturers Association, plans to promote not only safety and best practice, but also the benefits of mobile access towers in a growing number of different applications. The week will also provide a snapshot of current tower use to inform future safety campaigns and projects. Exceptional environmental services technicians honoured for infection prevention efforts The Association for the Healthcare Environment (AHE), of the American Hospital Association (AHA), and Kimberly-Clark this week announced the recipients of the second annual Heart of Healthcare Awards, honouring outstanding frontline environmental services technicians who make a difference for patients and residents across all care settings. AusClean Pulire is just four weeks away, so register now! It's not long now until AusClean Pulire opens its doors. And with more than 30 hours of education, 60 exhibitors, happy hour on the show floor and the Inclean Awards, networking and relationship building has never been so simple - or, knowing the Aussies, as much fun! Demand increasing for non-chemical cleaning & sanitising There is a growing acceptance that 'traditional' chemical methods are no longer the only solution for effective cleaning and sanitising. The main reason has to be the detrimental impact of chemicals on the environmental - however, there are many other benefits from going chemical-free, not least of which is a dramatic cost saving. The following individuals have been elected to the new ISSA board, which will be led by incoming ISSA President Fritz Gast of P.B. Gast & Sons. Reserve your seat for important conference now! Join the front runners of the cleaning industry at The British Cleaning Council's annual conference at the CBI Conference Centre in London's Centre Point Tower on Thursday 28th November 2013 from 09:00 until 15:30.
The conference will focus on 'Future Proofing the Cleaning Industry' and will once again include a high profile speaker line up. Janitorial Direct joins the Matrix network Matrix - established nearly a decade ago and now recognised as the UK's leading steam cleaning machine manufacturer with an extensive portfolio of high quality light commercial to industrial 4 bar and 8 bar cleaning systems in its portfolio, has welcomed Janitorial Direct to its network of distributors. 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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The company is celebrating with Open Days next week September 11th, 12th, 13th. As well as FactoryCat and TomCat machines Elan will also have the ORBITZ floor preparation machines available, that went down a storm at the Cleaning Show, with demonstrations of marble, terrazzo polishing and the stick dry stripping system. Soapbox: Carpet Care - Wet or Dry?
These days the majority of industry experts should really be called wet extraction cleaning experts. Their understanding of dry extraction is on a par with a trombone player explaining how to play a violin - he knows music and music theory; but if he hasn't played a violin, he will operate it improperly yet still expect to hear music! OxyPharm disinfection units now available through rental service
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