WHO's first global report on antibiotic resistance reveals serious, worldwide threat to public health: warns that hygiene needs to improve

A new report by the World Health Organisation (WHO)-its first to look at antimicrobial resistance, including antibiotic resistance, globally-reveals that this serious threat is no longer a prediction for the future, it is happening right now in every region of the world and has the potential to affect anyone, of any age, in any country.
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Clever little system from DAS Environmental Expert GmbH facilitates significant increase in energy efficiency and operational safety

Many companies need hot water in their production processes. An innovative system from Dresden (Germany) based DAS Environmental Expert GmbH now facilitates heat transfer from wastewater to process water. This helps to optimise the temperatures in the water flows, which significantly increases efficiency with regard to both energy usage and wastewater treatment.
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Las Vegas to celebrate new type of wedding

Air travellers in and out of Las Vegas now have an added measure of personal security in the form of an advanced cleaning technology. McCarran International Airport has installed Ecolab's new Hydris cleaning system to help make the airport cleaner, safer and healthier for travellers and airport employees.
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Sky Pro introduces safe,cost effective alternative to manual window cleaning

Sky Pro Window Cleaning systems offer a safe alternative to manual window cleaning. Sky Pro machines require only two people to operate.
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Karcher’s B60/10C MopVac wins ISSA/Interclean Amsterdam Innovation Award 2014

The B60/10C MopVac from Karcher was found by the international team of judges, to have filled the gap between the mop & bucket and scrubber dryer.
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Machines, accessories and components

Category winner: Wetrok - Wetrok Discomatic Mambo – The compact size of this 30-litre scrubber dryer makes it extremely manoeuverable and suitable for a wide range of new applications. The fact that it is powered by a lithium-ion battery gives it a run time that is four times longer than a conventional lead battery. The water feed can be regulated from the control panel and to make operator training even simpler, there are only four control buttons.
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Equipment/tools for cleaning, care and safety

Category and overall winner: Kärcher - B60/10C MopVac

Finalist: Sofidel – Biotech is a biologically active toilet tissue, containing microorganisms that produce enzymes on contact with water. These enzymes feed on the dirt in pipes in sewers, helping to reduce the need for cleaning.

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

Category winner: European Cleaning Machines Recycling - ECMR – A unique concept for the professional cleaning sector.
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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. 

The 2014 International jury:

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.

Getting around

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

One thing we’ve been guilty of in the past – and which no doubt you may identity with, is that we’re so keen to get into the show that we often walk past the outdoor demonstration area without stopping to see what’s going on…
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Simplifying compliance with complicated regulations

Selden research had hinted that it was using the show to launch something pretty spectacular but had managed to keep everything really quiet and there was nothing on the company’s website to indicate what it would be, so it was with eager anticipation that we stepped onto the stand.

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.
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Squeegee magic

Moerman’s Sofie Landuyt showed us a number of innovations being unveiled at the show, including a selection of squeegees which, via a wheel on the squeegee head, can be easily adjusted in angle to suit both the user and the shape of the surface being cleaned.

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.
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An abundance of brushes available worldwide

Our picture shows Meindert de Boer, Business Development Advisor at TVH, with just a tiny selection of the company’s brushes. Behind our photographer are two much bigger brushes, which are used on road sweepers and fork lift trucks.

The company, which has customers in 172 countries, has two main business activities: Parts & Accessories and Rental & Equipment.
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A welcome return and a novel machine

Making a welcome return after too long an absence from this show, is British manufacturer Dowding & Plummer and its Victor floor cleaning machines. Mention this manufacturer and its brand to anyone who’s been in the industry for any time and they will immediately picture a rotary floor cleaning machine, so what surprised us was rectangular shape of the machines on display (as you can see for yourself in our image which also features the Managing Director Barney Dowding.
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Prochem Europe

Prochem Europe is attending Interclean with two new key products from its extensive range of hot water extraction machines. Featuring a host of new performance benefits to provide power, performance and convenience in a brand new extractor design, the Endeavor's specifications include dual 6.6 in. high performance, low noise vacuum motors; the ultra-reliable 150 psi induction motor pump and a slide-in version of Prochem's advanced Heat 'n' Run in-line stainless steel heat exchanger.
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Truvox International

Truvox International is launching the Multiwash 340/Pump Battery machine – the latest addition to what has been one of the most popular floor cleaning machines in the company’s range.
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European Tissue Symposium

The European Tissue Symposium is launching the 4th edition of the ETS International Cartoon Contest., using creative talent to promote the importance of proper hand drying and hand hygiene. Last year's cartoon contest resulted in 71 entries from 37 countries worldwide and a selection of these entries together with the winning contributions are being exhibited during the show.
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Anti-Vandal Air Freshener

The new Oxy-Gen Powered Shield Anti-Vandal Air Freshener makes its European debut at ISSA Interclean 2014. Like the hugely successful Viva!e Air Freshener, Shield uses patented Oxy-Gen Powered technology to deliver 60+ days’ continuous fragrance with consistent intensity.

“Protective heavy duty metal brackets or covers that fit over an existing dispenser can spoil the aesthetic look of the dispenser as well as make servicing more difficult,” argues Product Manager Nupur Saxena.
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Immers-A-Clean

GenEon Technologies – a company based in San Antonio in the US, is launching  Immers-A-Clean; a portable, hand-held, electrochemical activation electrolyzing technology for making cleaning, degreasing, sanitising, disinfecting and ionization solutions on demand. The system can make 20 - 200 litres of safe-to-use, sustainable cleaning solution in five minutes – in virtually any container - wherever and whenever cleaning is needed.
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Morclean Bin Wash and Lift

Making its debut at ISSAInterclean is the fast growing British company Morclean, which as well as taking part in this event to showcase its new-for-2014 bin washing machines, is hoping to make contact with stand visitors keen to discuss the advantages of becoming a Morclean distributor.
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Car Hygiene Plus

Italian manufacturer Tecnovap is launching the Car Hygiene Plus car wash system. This easy-to-use, practical self-service system incorporates a steam and vacuum feature for interior car cleaning that uses dry, saturated steam. As well as cleaning and sanitising, it eliminates fungus, bad smells, bacteria and dustmites.
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Inteb calls for tighter Legionella regulation

Low energy, sustainability and commercial property compliance consultancy, Inteb, is calling for Legionella testing to be made compulsory, as the fight against the bacteria hots up.
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Cleaning Expo Scotland 2014 gets the 'Yes' vote!

Scotland is featuring regularly on news bulletins and in the Press, thanks to the historic referendum taking place on 18th September 2014, on whether or not to become an independent country. How will the people vote: 'Yes', or 'No'? One thing we know people are saying 'Yes' to is Cleaning Expo Scotland, which is taking place just a couple of weeks before the referendum, on 3th and 4th September, at Glasgow's SECC.
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Survey results show training and infrastructure issues wreck 'distributed leadership'

New research from the Chartered Institute of Personnel & Development, the professional body for Human Resources and people development, has found that rigid organisational hierarchies are one of the main barriers to improving management and leadership skills in today's workplaces.
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Swiftclean offers free compliance healthcheck at The Facilities Show

The 'masters of the science of compliance', the team from Swiftclean Building Services, will be offering a free compliance healthcheck to visitors to The Facilities Show, which is being held at Excel, London, from 17th - 19th June.
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Clemas sings the praises of Tennant's T2

Clemas & Co, the specialist supplier of industrial and commercial floor cleaning machines, has been singing the praises of Tennant's T2 compact battery powered walk behind scrubber dryer. Ideal for cleaning small congested areas in one pass; the machine is faster and more productive than using a mop and bucket whilst providing the highest level of cleanliness.
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Devon Norse takes over civic building cleaning

Devon Norse has strengthened its partnership with Devon County Council with the award of the cleaning and facilities management of the council's civic buildings.
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Legionella Control announces breakfast seminars following changes to HSG274 Part 2 Guidelines

Legionella Control International has launched a nationwide series of short but concise 'Breakfast Briefings' to get facilities managers up to speed following major changes to the HSE's ACOP L8 and HSG274 Part 2 (Hot and Cold Water Systems) Guidelines.
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