Cleanzine: your weekly cleaning and hygiene industry newsletter 7th May 2014 Issue no. 623
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Cleanzine - the original Cleaning & Hygiene industry e-news Read by industry professionals in 148 countries worldwide! My visit to the 25th ISSA/Interclean exhibition in Amsterdam started with a lesson: when flying, always use a large enough handbag – one that can carry the laptop but still be zipped up. For this trip I’d opted for a smaller than usual bag, which fell over during take-off and shot my passport under my seat. It’s all very well feeling pleased that you’ve been one of the first off the plane and may well make it to the front of the taxi queue before your fellow travellers, but completely useless when you can’t get through passport control… I’m not sure who will have been most embarrassed: me emptying my bag in full view of the rest of those who’d flown out from Gatwick - clearly having lost that important document, or John Austen having to claim a very girly suitcase from the carousel, as I waited with other potential ‘undesirables’ at the security desk for my passport to be found by the cleaners and brought to me! Consequently, we were at the back of the queue for taxis and now even behind the Birmingham flight passengers; although chatting to our friends Hannah and Bal from Unger while queuing and during our cab ride, took our minds off the fact that we were running late for the show and would be missing the Innovation Awards ceremony. Luckily the very able marketing team from Amsterdam RAI have produced a press release about the event, which means we are able to bring you the results of the Awards… 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
Karcher’s B60/10C MopVac wins ISSA/Interclean Amsterdam Innovation Award 2014
Machines, accessories and components
Equipment/tools for cleaning, care and safety Category and overall winner: Kärcher - B60/10C MopVac
Finalist: Tennant Europe – Orbio os3 is a unit that allows customers to generate their own cleaning and disinfecting solutions on-site – created through water electrolysis and using salt – so reducing conventional chemical use. Cleaning management and training solutions
Alpheios ExpertAtHand wins the Visitor’s Choice Award For the second time the Visitor’s Choice prize has been awarded to the nominee that is voted by ISSA/Interclean Amsterdam attendees, as the most innovative. With 39.9% of the votes, Alpheios ExpertAtHand won the Visitor’s Choice Award 2014.
Michelle Marshall – Chair: Chief Editor European Cleaning Journal - United Kingdom; Reinhard Knittler: Publisher Reinigungs Markt - Germany; Paolo Pellizzari: Editor Pulizia Industriale e Sanificazione - Italy; Pierre Deschamps: Chief Editor Batiment Entretien – France; Rob Geissler: Publisher Sanitary Maintenance, Contracting Profits, Housekeeping Solutions – USA; Cor van der Velden: Chief Expert at Skills Netherlands – The Netherlands; Dick van Zomeren: Industry Expert and Editor Service Management - The Netherlands; Ton van der Riet: Managing Director Senzora - The Netherlands. The Amsterdam Innovation Award supports African water project The proceedings from the competition entrants’ registration fees are donated to the African Medical & Research Foundation (AMREF) Flying Doctors, and their project ‘Sustainable Water Access for the Masai in Kajiado, Kenya’. This project aims at providing the local community with better access to clean drinking water and aims to decrease water sanitation and hygiene related diseases. We – and those we’ve spoken to - feel the show’s layout, with dedicated areas that keep similar products together (so, for example, someone looking for washroom cleaning & hygiene solutions knows where to head when entering the RAI) is working very well. This year there are dedicated areas for high pressure cleaning, steam cleaning, management & mobility solutions and washroom solutions, as well as an area set out for those products that made the finals of the Innovation Awards. These areas are - cleverly, colour coded in the floorplans which are freely available at the entrances to the halls. I am finding these floorplans much easier to use than the old ones, which – because of the sheer size of the show – had in previous years been run over several pages of the catalogues. This new format is much easier to work with and makes orientation easier in terms of both seeing how the different halls link together and being able to read what you need to without a magnifying glass! The Outdoor Demo Show: really bringing outdoor cleaning to life
Simplifying compliance with complicated regulations
People so often say there is little that’s new in cleaning but we often come across some real innovation. I have to admit that on this occasion though, once Mark Woodhead had given his presentation, my response was: “If I don’t see anything else that’s new at this exhibition, what you’ve just shown us has made our visit to Amsterdam worthwhile.” Selden’s new service is absolutely brilliant and I can’t imagine anyone not being impressed by it.
They can then be locked in place or left to move freely, to suit the user’s needs and the surface being cleaned. The angle at which the squeegee sits upon the surface is also easily adjustable, as is where the squeegee sits on the pole (from left to right). All of them twist easily into whichever handle suits the job in hand. An abundance of brushes available worldwide
The company, which has customers in 172 countries, has two main business activities: Parts & Accessories and Rental & Equipment. A welcome return and a novel machine
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