Cleanzine: your weekly cleaning and hygiene industry newsletter 11th April 2019 Issue no. 865
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Products ISSA develops new calculators to aid members
Innovative Sustane polymer launched to save natural resources
Whizzing window washers' World Cup success
Try as they might though, none of them was able to break Terry 'Turbo' Burrows' Guinness World Record, which Terry's held for 10 years. Touching down: the Toucan Eco III
Producing the steam behind the drain cleaning 'brain'
When the outlook is unclear - futureproof your cleaning
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Cleanzine - the original Cleaning & Hygiene industry e-news Read by industry professionals in 163 countries worldwide! If the Leader that came with last week's Cleanzine had you scratching your head in confusion, I'm not surprised! It's the one we ran in Cleanzine's sister publication, KBzine, the previous day! I hope it provided food for thought though... Here's the one you were meant to be reading: Last week's Leader in which I discussed the benefits of our industry's awards programmes, prompted lots of phone calls and social media messaging! Many of you agree with my comments that often, the new products and technologies which most impress us haven't been entered into the awards programme at all - and this idea has led to a number of discussions about the way companies market themselves and their products, and the effects that 'doing it right' can have on success. One idea I rather liked, wasn't as a direct result of my Leader but instead came in the form of a LinkedIn challenge by Paul Castle, national sales director at NIC Services Group, who said: "Right then... what do you want to see at the new cleaning show? (I've had my say on my disappointment of this year's offering). Let's start this off with a 'comparison lab' - a place like a 'robot wars' arena where suppliers can go head-to-head with their competitors in a judged setting (productivity, usability, standards etc) like a dance-off but for equipment! How many would actually stand by their kit against their rivals?" I love Paul's idea but I'm wondering how easy it will be to get off the ground, with some companies afraid their boasts about their product being the best won't stand up to scrutiny, and others not having the resources to take part. As I said to him, so many press releases I receive claim to talk about the 'leading', 'groundbreaking', 'best-in-class', 'first-to-market' etc, so to have the opportunity to see similar products go head to head would be interesting, to say the least. While training as a journalist, one of the things I learnt was never to repeat these claims verbatim, since it can get you into trouble if they are challenged by another manufacturer and your publication - because of advertising support and the like - is deemed to have a vested interest in supporting a false claim. I've seen journalists come unstuck where they've not adhered to this rule but still the press releases making these claims keep coming. I'd love to see similar products presented head-to-head, so we can judge for ourselves. What do you think? Is this 'robot wars' arena-type exercise something in which you'd like to take part?
Yours,
           This Week's News
Edinburgh-based Topolytics named a top five global circular economy solution
The contest, which received more than 200 applications from around the world, was looking at commercial concepts that could scale globally and help to design out waste and pollution, keep products and materials in use and/or regenerate natural systems. New Nelson 'Ergo' provides comfortable alternative to undercounter dishwashers Positioned somewhere between an undercounter dishwasher and a pass-through, the new Nelson Advantage Plus AD51 'Ergo' has been ergonomically designed to avoid the need for the operator to bend. "Back problems are the most common occupational ailment in the catering workplace," explains John Nelson, managing director of Nelson Dish & Glasswashers. "The Ergo provides an affordable solution for people who don't need to invest in a pass-through but who want a comfortable means of loading and unloading a dishwasher." BICSc Annual Awards 2019 applications deadline looming There are less than four weeks left to enter the 2019 British Institute of Cleaning Science Annual Awards, with the ceremony taking place on Thursday 26th September at Whittlebury Hall Hotel & Spa in Northamptonshire. The winners are determined by a judging panel made up of industry experts, and provide a great opportunity to showcase an individual's, or organisation's, achievements to the wider cleaning industry, as well as BICSc community of over 30,000 members. Last year's winner of the 'Client Commitment to Training' award, Rosaleen Liard, chief executive officer of Chequers Contract Services says of her company's win: Are we making water a priority?
Did you know that cleaning can account for up to 70% of a site's water usage? That statistic resulted from research carried out in 2013 from WRAP - the Waste & Resources Action Programme. WRAP is an organisation dedicated to producing positive economic and environmental action. It identified the food and drink industry, including manufacturing and hospitality, as the highest industrial water user outside of energy and waste. This does not include water used within finished products. Citron Hygiene expands into Europe with acquisition of Admiral Cleaning Supplies
It has two locations in the UK, approximately 80 employees and 7,500 customer locations. David Wax elected chairman of Network Services Company
He will lead the Network Board of Directors and the Network membership, aligning with strategic suppliers and key customers globally. The Soap Co. puts the spring into its Citrus washroom fragrance for 2019
The new Citrus scent - from the luxury, ethical The Soap Co. Original Collection - has refreshing notes of zesty lemon and fresh grapefruit and is available both as a hand wash and hand lotion (available in 300ml & five-litre refills to reduce your plastic waste). Almost time for Pulire Verona 2019...
The exhibition has also vastly expanded in size. Danish Building & Property Agency chooses ISS as its FM partner
"ISS has significant capacity in the market, and we look forward to starting a strong partnership, where we can jointly develop, improve and professionalise an area with huge potential." Says Rasmus Brandt Lassen, director of the Danish Building & Property Agency. TC Facilities Management achieves £3M in new sales
The contracts, worth £3 million per annum, will see over 300 colleagues join TCFM up and down the country since the contracts started going live from 1st March, 2019. Cleanology research reveals real attitudes to rates of pay
Cleanology is a passionate advocate of the Real Living Wage and initiated the research to explore the attitudes both to wage levels and to perceptions around cleaners' pay. It discovered a great deal of confusion around the National Living Wage and Real Living Wage pay brackets, with a majority of respondents underestimating the level of the voluntary Real Living Wage and just 33% correctly identifying the statutory National Living Wage rate. CSSA Awards - event pictures available
"These Awards have been developed to recognise everything that shines within the UK cleaning sector - great products, great systems, great contractors, and great individuals," says the CSSA's John Findlater. "The strength of the awards is that they are run for the industry, by the industry and voted for by industry experts. Ecocleen awarded ISO 27001 Certification
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