Cleanzine: your weekly cleaning and hygiene industry newsletter 10th October 2013 Issue no. 594
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 International News
Products CMS posts record exhibitor and visitor numbers ... confirming its role as a leading European event for this sector. The event had an even greater international dimension, with highly satisfied exhibitors and visitors keen to sing its praises. It left us all in an extremely positive mood as far as the industry's overall economic outlook is concerned.The organisers tell us that some 361 companies from 20 countries exhibited this year, compared with 354 exhibitors from 19 countries at the last event in 2011. VoleoPro - a new versatile and compact trolley from Vileda Professional
Making the most of every component and every cm of space…
Tornado cleans up without water and without chemicals
The aptly named new Tornado mobile jet system is based on a worldwide patented negative pressure jet principle. Designed as a mobile compact device, it is no bigger than a standard industrial vacuum cleaner, but the combination of units, which incorporate a jet cap and jet lance, a filtering cartridge and dust separation unit, as well as the container for the required granulates, creates a fast and efficient, negative pressure cleaning system which is ideal for removing graffiti etc. CMS Purus Awards: the winners - Kärcher
Alfred Kärcher GmbH & Co. KG - one of the three, received this highly sought-after award for its BR 35/12 C compact scrubber-drier.
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Cleanzine - the original Cleaning & Hygiene industry e-news Read by industry professionals in 148 countries worldwide! My kettle’s been acting erratically for the past week. Normally, I switch it on and a light glows in the switch itself. Once the kettle’s boiled, the switch flicks itself up and the light goes out. For the past week the electricity’s not been getting through consistently. The light – and electricity – have been going on and off pre-boil. I haven’t had time to buy a kettle so have resorted to keep flicking the switch up and down, holding it down when it’s working to keep it working and also manoeuvring the kettle on its base to try for a better connection. All this is dangerous yet I’ve continued. This morning the operation had taken more than 20 minutes and, thinking the thing had broken completely I fetched the piano stool and – standing on it with knees braced against the cupboard, I reached up to the top of a kitchen wall unit to grab my filter coffee maker (unused for years) with the aim of filtering boiling water into a jug. That’s dangerous too. This week we’re carrying an item about the Ladder Association’s training scheme and in visiting the website to see the latest ‘Idiots on Ladders’ photo’s, I was amazed at the risks some people will create, to get the job done. With some of them though, I thought: “I’ve done that” or even: “I’d do that” (despite it having been deemed dangerous by those who’d taken and posted the photo). So what is it? Are those of us who take risks (generally having assessed them) both at home and whilst going about our paid employment lazy, stupid or in too much of a hurry to play it safe? Are we perhaps living in a mollycoddling age in which we’re discouraged from taking any risks at all, however slight - and as a result are ‘over the top’? Or are we perhaps even seeking that frisson of excitement by taking a risk and not coming to any harm? Please get back to me with your thoughts – even if it’s to call me an idiot! And yes. Come Saturday I’m off to buy a new kettle. But whether that’s because what I’m doing to achieve my morning coffee is dangerous, or because I’m having to wait too long for a drink, I’m afraid I can’t tell you…
Yours,
        This Week's News
Cleaning Expo Scotland 2014 "selling well" says organiser
The POD - reduce your paper consumption by up to 20%
The 20th Congress of World Federation of Building Services Contractors, a bi-annual conference for the building service industry, will be hosted by Harvard Maintenance at the New York Marriott Marquis,New York, from 6th - 9th April 2014 and anyone with an interest in the discipline is welcome to attend. Same shift bacteria test approved by AOAC Research Institute for Food & Beverage industries
Panztel acquired by Care Monitoring & Management
Katrin Easy Pack is hitting the streets running...
As thousands of cleaning professionals get ready to visit the ISSA/Interclean Tradeshow in Las Vegas, NV, we hope that they already know to pack sanitising wipes to clean down airplane tray tables, overhead lockers, WC door handles and the like. But that's not the only place that may need sanitising... Glass Restore - a new and specialised service from Cresswell Services
The WCEC is a highly relevant, modern Livery Company combining the traditions and mystique of The City with the changing needs of a major 21st Century industry. Emprise retains The British Library
Regent Samsic grows cleaning and security client portfolio
Additions to the contractor's cleaning portfolio includes St Paul's Girls' School in Birmingham and Myton School, Warwick; Mercedes-Benz Bristol; regional offices operated nationally by Provident Financial; and further wins within its Monmouthshire County Council contracts that take in the Abergavenny and Chepstow clusters. Anti-Vandal dispenser keeps air fresh
Show places increased attention on industrial cleaning and safety
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Our weekly updated Hospital Hygiene features current developments and product solutions cleaning and hygiene industry manufacturers are coming up with. Read More. Recent UK News
Deals with water damage; cleans hard floors and facades
The new CEBE Benovac FE has auto feed function as well as automatic discharge, which makes it ideal for use in water damage restoration, as well as for hard floor and facade cleaning. The hard floor tool and the wall tool make it possible to clean with up to 80 bar of pressure while at the same time removing the cleaning solution - from vertical surfaces too. Abranopp - the revolutionary cleaning system for structured floors!
Structured flooring is problematic in terms of cleaning and care in that the deeper zones of the structure cannot be optimally reached and cleaned using tried and tested conventional cleaning products such as super pads and cleaning brushes. 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"
Good food hygiene is good for business
It's in the can... new corporate video from Robert Scott & Sons
Costs of gum removal will be slashed with new Gumwand invention
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
Incentive FM's cleaning and security expertise enriches shopping centre portfolio
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. Reserve your seat for important conference now!
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